The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 226
Huge lion of the forestry of war; Fair, central pillar of the House of Fame; But yesterday he towered above the world: This day he lies along the earth, a shade.’
Who acts: Huge lion, day · What happens: tower, lie, forest · To what, where: world, earth, war
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huge lion, day), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lion | amod |
| 2 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 towered | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 forestry | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 forestry | det |
| 5 | forestry | forestry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 war | case |
| 7 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forestry | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 pillar | punct |
| 9 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pillar | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Fair | punct |
| 11 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 pillar | amod |
| 12 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lion | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 House | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 House | det |
| 15 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 pillar | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Fame | case |
| 17 | Fame | Fame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 House | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 towered | punct |
| 19 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 towered | cc |
| 20 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 towered | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 towered | nsubj |
| 22 | towered | tower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | above | above | ADP | _ | 25 world | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 world | det |
| 25 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 towered | obl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
| 27 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 day | det |
| 28 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | nsubj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 lies | nsubj |
| 30 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 towered | parataxis |
| 31 | along | along | ADP | _ | 33 earth | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 earth | det |
| 33 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lies | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 shade | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 shade | det |
| 36 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 earth | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 30 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tower | past | Huge lion of the forestry of war and Fair central pillar of the House of Fame | the world | yesterday | lion nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above world=Location | ||
| 2 | lie | present | this day | the earth and a shade | lion nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent along earth=Location | |||
| 3 | forest | war | nom forestry «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Project Gutenberg book 78491 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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