The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 48
Slay them in mountain hold and forest lair In vale and glen: slay each apart, half-armed; Easy the task!’
Who acts: you · What happens: slay, hold · To what, where: Touches, forest lair, mountain, each
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 (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 | Slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Slay | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 mountain | case |
| 4 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obl |
| 5 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slay | parataxis |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 lair | cc |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lair | compound |
| 8 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | obj |
| 9 | In | in | ADP | _ | 10 vale | case |
| 10 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lair | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 glen | cc |
| 12 | glen | glen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 vale | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 slay | punct |
| 14 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Slay | conj |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 slay | obj |
| 16 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 14 slay | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 armed | punct |
| 18 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 20 armed | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 half | punct |
| 20 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 slay | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Easy | punct |
| 22 | Easy | Easy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Slay | obl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 task | det |
| 24 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Easy | appos |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slay | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | imperative | you not said here | Touches = touch | Easy obl | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | hold | present | forest lair | mountain | in vale and glen | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lair=Theme in mountain=Location | |||
| 3 | slay | infinitive | you not said here | each | apart property | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=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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