The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 8
Lastly she marches against Eman, its metropolis, but slowly, being encumbered by her spoil.
Who acts: Meave, spoil · What happens: march, encumber, spoil · To what, where: metropolis, Eman
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 (Meave, spoil), 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 | Lastly | lastly | ADV | _ | 3 marches | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 marches | nsubj |
| 3 | marches | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | against | against | ADP | _ | 5 Eman | case |
| 5 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 marches | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 metropolis | punct |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 metropolis | nmod:poss |
| 8 | metropolis | metropolis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 marches | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 encumbered | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 encumbered | cc |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 14 encumbered | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 slowly | punct |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 encumbered | aux:pass |
| 14 | encumbered | encumber | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 marches | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 spoil | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spoil | nmod:poss |
| 17 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 encumbered | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 marches | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | present | Meave | circuit's metropolis | Eman | lastly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against eman=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | encumber | gerund · passive | Meave's spoil | slowly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spoil | Meave | nom spoil «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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