The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 86
Meantime, that night within his forest lair In dreams Cuchullain lay, and saw in dreams, Not recent fights, but ocean and that isle Where with Ferdīa he had dwelt in youth, With Scatha--and another.
Who acts: Cuchullain · What happens: lie, see, dwell · To what, where: dreams, youth, Meantime
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 (Cuchullain), 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 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 night | punct |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | appos |
| 5 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 lair | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lair | compound |
| 8 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 night | nmod |
| 9 | In | in | ADP | _ | 10 dreams | case |
| 10 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lair | nmod |
| 11 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 dreams | acl:relcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lay | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dreams | case |
| 17 | dreams | dream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fights | punct |
| 19 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 fights | advmod |
| 20 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 fights | amod |
| 21 | fights | fight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 dreams | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 ocean | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 ocean | cc |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 isle | cc |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 isle | det |
| 27 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 28 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 dwelt | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Ferdīa | case |
| 30 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dwelt | obl |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dwelt | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dwelt | aux |
| 33 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 isle | acl:relcl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 youth | case |
| 35 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 dwelt | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Scatha | punct |
| 37 | With | with | ADP | _ | 38 Scatha | case |
| 38 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 dwelt | obl |
| 39 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 41 another | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 another | cc |
| 41 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 1 Meantime | conj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meantime | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Cuchullain | dreams not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location dream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Cuchullain not said here | dreams and recent fights | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | dwell | past · perfect | Cuchullain | youth | with Ferdīa; with Scatha | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in youth=Location |
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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