The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 155
Bear on your march my body:--raise the cairn On the first hill that kens Emania’s towers.’
Who acts: Bear body, first hill · What happens: raise, ken · To what, where: cairn, first hill, towers, Bear body
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 (Bear body, first hill), 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 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 body | compound |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 march | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 march | nmod:poss |
| 4 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bear | nmod |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 body | nmod:poss |
| 6 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 raise | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 raise | punct |
| 9 | raise | raise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 body | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cairn | det |
| 11 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raise | obj |
| 12 | On | on | ADP | _ | 15 hill | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hill | det |
| 14 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 hill | amod |
| 15 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 raise | obl |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 kens | nsubj |
| 17 | kens | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hill | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 towers | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Emania | case |
| 20 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 kens | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 raise | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 raise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | infinitive | my Bear body not said here | the cairn | the first hill | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cairn=Theme on hill=Destination | |||
| 2 | ken | present | the first hill | Emania's towers | tree rules |
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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