The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 8
He lays his friend upon the bank, at its northern side, and, standing beside him, sings his dirge.
Who acts: Ferdīa · What happens: lay, stand, sing · To what, where: friend, northern side, dirge
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 (Ferdīa), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lays | nsubj |
| 2 | lays | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lays | obj |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 bank | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bank | det |
| 7 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lays | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 side | punct |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 side | case |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 side | nmod:poss |
| 11 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 side | amod |
| 12 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lays | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sings | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 sings | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 standing | punct |
| 16 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 sings | advcl |
| 17 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 standing | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sings | punct |
| 20 | sings | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 lays | conj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dirge | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 sings | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lays | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lay | present | Ferdīa | Ferdīa's friend | bank's northern side | upon the bank | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent friend=Theme upon bank=Destination | ||
| 2 | stand | gerund | beside Ferdīa | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=Location | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | present | Ferdīa not said here | Ferdīa's dirge | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dirge=Theme |
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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