The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 228
Then Leagh went forth Groaning, and smote his hands, and wept aloud ‘Because he will not wake the host must die!’
Who acts: Leagh, host · What happens: go, groan, smite, weep, not wake, die · To what, where: hands
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 (Leagh, host), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 Groaning | advmod |
| 5 | Groaning | groan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 went | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 smote | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 smote | cc |
| 8 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hands | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 smote | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 wept | cc |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | aloud | aloud | ADV | _ | 13 wept | advmod |
| 15 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 16 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 wake | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wake | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 wake | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 wake | advmod |
| 20 | wake | wake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wept | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 host | det |
| 22 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 die | nsubj |
| 23 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 die | aux |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wake | ccomp |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Leagh | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | groan | gerund | Leagh not said here | forth property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | smite | past | Leagh not said here | Leagh's hands | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hand=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | weep | past | Leagh not said here | aloud property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | not wake | future | Leagh | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | die | must | the host | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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