The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 89
Upon a mound Meantime the royal throne was set, a throng Of warriors round it.
What happens: set · To what, where: royal throne
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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 Meantime | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Meantime | det |
| 3 | mound | mound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Meantime | compound |
| 4 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 throne | det |
| 6 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 throne | amod |
| 7 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 set | aux:pass |
| 9 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 throng | punct |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 throng | det |
| 12 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 set | obj |
| 13 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 14 warriors | case |
| 14 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 throng | nmod |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 warriors | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past · passive | the royal throne | upon a mound Meantime; a throng of warriors round throng obj | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme throng=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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