The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 42
Upon the warrior’s hand Still nigh to hers, there lay a scar.
What happens: lay · To what, where: scar, hand
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: 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 warrior | det |
| 3 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hand | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 warrior | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 6 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 9 hers | advmod |
| 7 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 9 hers | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 hers | case |
| 9 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hand | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hand | punct |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 lay | expl |
| 12 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 scar | det |
| 14 | scar | scar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | a scar | the warrior's hand to music; there | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent scar=Theme upon hand=Destination |
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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