The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 280
The host pursuing Looked up, yet swerved not from their course.
Who acts: host · What happens: pursue, look up, not swerve · To what, where: course
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 host | det |
| 2 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swerved | nsubj |
| 3 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 host | acl |
| 4 | Looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pursuing | xcomp |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 Looked | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 swerved | punct |
| 7 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 swerved | cc |
| 8 | swerved | swerve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 swerved | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 course | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 course | nmod:poss |
| 12 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 swerved | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 swerved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | gerund | the host not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look up | participle | the host not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not swerve | past | the host | Ulidians's course | vn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location course=Theme |
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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