The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 157
But on Meave A piercing sadness fell; and by her bed Orloff her buried son stood up, and spake; ‘Home to thy native realm, and Cruachan!
Who acts: piercing sadness · What happens: fall, bury, stand up · To what, where: Home, Meave, spake
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 (piercing sadness), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fell | cc |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 Meave | case |
| 3 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sadness | det |
| 5 | piercing | piercing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sadness | compound |
| 6 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | nsubj |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 stood | cc |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 13 | Orloff | orloff | ADP | _ | 16 son | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 son | nmod:poss |
| 15 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 son | amod |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bed | nmod |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 18 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 stood | compound:prt |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 spake | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spake | cc |
| 21 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 Home | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Home | punct |
| 24 | Home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 realm | case |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 realm | nmod:poss |
| 27 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 realm | amod |
| 28 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Home | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cruachan | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Cruachan | cc |
| 31 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | parataxis |
| 32 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cruachan | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a piercing sadness | Home to thy native realm | Meave | Cruachan parataxis | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on meave=Location | ||
| 2 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stand up | past | a piercing sadness not said here | spake | by sadness's bed orloff sadness's buried son | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by bed=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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