The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 39
Dead on thy marriage garland lies mine own; For lo! the stain accursed is on our sword: Thy race came first: this Island should be theirs!”’
Who acts: stain, race, Island, Thy · What happens: lie, accurs, be, come, race · To what, where: mine, stain, sword, rites
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 (stain, race, Island, Thy), 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 | Dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lies | csubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 garland | case |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 garland | nmod:poss |
| 4 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 garland | compound |
| 5 | garland | garland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dead | obl |
| 6 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 lies | obj |
| 8 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lies | xcomp |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sword | punct |
| 10 | For | for | ADP | _ | 11 lo | case |
| 11 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 19 sword | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lo | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 stain | det |
| 14 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sword | nsubj |
| 15 | accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 stain | acl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sword | cop |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 sword | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sword | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lies | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 21 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 race | nmod:poss |
| 22 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 sword | acl:relcl |
| 24 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 theirs | punct |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Island | det |
| 27 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 theirs | nsubj |
| 28 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 theirs | aux |
| 29 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 theirs | cop |
| 30 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sword | parataxis |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 theirs | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 sword | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | mine | own property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location my=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accurs | participle | the stain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the stain | our sword | our nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | come | past | Thy race | our sword not said here | first property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sword=Theme | |||
| 5 | is a | should | this Island | rites = rite | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | race | Thy | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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