The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 182
Between their tents and Meave’s All that long night the buriers of the dead Groped their sad way with red, earth-grazing torch, Turning the white face up in search of friend, Brother, or son.
Who acts: buriers · What happens: grope, turn up, search · To what, where: sad way, white face, search, friend
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (buriers), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 3 tents | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tents | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 ’s | cc |
| 5 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 ’s | nsubj |
| 6 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tents | conj |
| 7 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 night | det:predet |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 night | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 night | amod |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Groped | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 buriers | det |
| 12 | buriers | burier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Groped | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dead | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dead | det |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 buriers | nmod |
| 16 | Groped | grope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 ’s | ccomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 way | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Groped | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 torch | case |
| 21 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 torch | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 red | punct |
| 23 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grazing | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 earth | punct |
| 25 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 torch | compound |
| 26 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Groped | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Turning | punct |
| 28 | Turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 Groped | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 face | det |
| 30 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 face | amod |
| 31 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Turning | obj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 Turning | compound:prt |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 search | case |
| 34 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Turning | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 friend | case |
| 36 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 search | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Brother | punct |
| 38 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 friend | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 son | punct |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 son | cc |
| 41 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Brother | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grope | past | the buriers of the dead | foes's sad way | night | with red grazing torch | vn touch-20 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent way=Experiencer with torch=Instrument | ||
| 2 | turn up | gerund | the buriers of the dead not said here | the white face | search of friend | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location face=Theme | |||
| 4 | search | friend | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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