The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 46
By twos and threes A score of stragglers from the exiles’ band Closed up behind him.
What happens: close up, score · To what, where: stragglers
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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 twos | case |
| 2 | twos | two | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 threes | cc |
| 4 | threes | three | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 twos | conj |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 score | det |
| 6 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 twos | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 stragglers | case |
| 8 | stragglers | straggler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 score | nmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 band | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 exiles | det |
| 11 | exiles | exile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 band | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 exiles | case |
| 13 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stragglers | nmod |
| 14 | Closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 stragglers | acl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 Closed | compound:prt |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 Closed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 twos | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | close up | participle | stragglers from the exiles's band not said here | behind spake = speak | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | score | stragglers from the exiles's band | nom score «cognition 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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