The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 21
The royal tent was set High on a grassy platform.
What happens: set · To what, where: royal tent, grassy platform
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tent | det |
| 2 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tent | amod |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | aux:pass |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 set | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 platform | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 platform | det |
| 9 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 platform | amod |
| 10 | platform | platform | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the royal tent | a grassy platform | high property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on platform=Destination |
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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