The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 122
He loved me, Rochad, once: ere sets yon moon I bring you tamed the lion of yon hills, Aye, in a silken leash!’
Who acts: sequel, ere, I, you · What happens: love, set, bring, tame · To what, where: me, yon moon, lion
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 (sequel, ere, I, you), 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 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 loved | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Rochad | punct |
| 5 | Rochad | Rochad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 loved | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 once | punct |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 loved | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 sets | punct |
| 9 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sets | nsubj |
| 10 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 loved | conj |
| 11 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moon | compound |
| 12 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sets | obj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 bring | nsubj |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sets | xcomp |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tamed | nsubj |
| 16 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bring | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lion | det |
| 18 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tamed | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hills | case |
| 20 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hills | compound |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lion | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Aye | punct |
| 23 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 10 sets | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 leash | punct |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 leash | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 leash | det |
| 27 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 leash | amod |
| 28 | leash | leash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sets | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 28 leash | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 leash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | sequel | me | Rochad obl; once property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | set | present | ere | yon moon | a silken leash parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bring | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tame | past | you | the lion of yon hills | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent lion=Patient |
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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