The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 18
Six days, and in Cuchullain’s cell no change-- The bud grew large; the earlier violet died; He neither spake nor moved.
Who acts: Six days, earlier violet · What happens: grow, die, move · To what, where: cell
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 (Six days, earlier violet), 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 | Six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 grew | cc |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cell | case |
| 6 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cell | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cuchullain | case |
| 8 | cell | cell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | obl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 change | det |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cell | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 cell | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bud | det |
| 13 | bud | bud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grew | nsubj |
| 14 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grew | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 died | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 violet | det |
| 18 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 violet | amod |
| 19 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 died | nsubj |
| 20 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grew | parataxis |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 spake | punct |
| 22 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spake | nsubj |
| 23 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 24 spake | advmod |
| 24 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 died | conj |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 moved | cc |
| 26 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 died | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Six days | Cuchullain's cell no change | the bud nsubj; large property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cell=Location | |||
| 2 | die | past | the earlier violet | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | move | past | the earlier violet not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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