The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 40
The legend saith That down before him on his natal morn All Erin’s fays and sprites from river or rill Their tributes laid.
Who acts: legend, tributes · What happens: say down, rill, lay · To what, where: That, natal morn
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 (legend, tributes), 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 legend | det |
| 2 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saith | nsubj |
| 3 | saith | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 saith | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 saith | compound:prt |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saith | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 morn | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 morn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | natal | natal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 morn | amod |
| 11 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saith | obl |
| 12 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Erin | det |
| 13 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fays | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Erin | case |
| 15 | fays | fay | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 morn | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sprites | cc |
| 17 | sprites | sprite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fays | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 river | case |
| 19 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fays | nmod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 rill | cc |
| 21 | rill | rill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 river | conj |
| 22 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 tributes | nmod:poss |
| 23 | tributes | tribute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 laid | nsubj |
| 24 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 rill | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saith | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say down speech: assert | present | the legend | That | spake's natal morn all Erin's fays from river and sprites | before spake = speak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||
| 2 | rill | infinitive | the legend not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lay | participle | sprites's tributes | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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