The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 106
Without a sigh She saw the Firbolg, last of all his race, Fall on the soil once theirs.
Who acts: Vanity, Ford · What happens: see, fall, race · To what, where: Firbolg, soil
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vanity, Ford), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 sigh | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sigh | det |
| 3 | sigh | sigh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Firbolg | det |
| 7 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 race | punct |
| 9 | last | last | ADV | _ | 13 race | advmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 race | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 race | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 race | nmod:poss |
| 13 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Fall | punct |
| 15 | Fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 soil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 soil | det |
| 18 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Fall | obl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 Fall | advmod |
| 20 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Fall | parataxis |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Vanity | the Firbolg | without a sigh; of Ford's race | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer firbolg=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | the soil | race parataxis; once property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on soil=Location | ||||
| 3 | race | Ford | 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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