The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 92
Her eye was on the north:-- Not distant stood two hills: she asked their names: Her great eyes darkened when the answer came Of Gairig and Ilgairig. ’
Who acts: eye, distant, chance, great eyes, answer, eyes · What happens: be, stand, ask, darken, come, name · To what, where: north, two hills, names
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 (eye, distant, chance, great eyes), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 eye | nmod:poss |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 north | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 north | cop |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 north | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 north | det |
| 6 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 stood | punct |
| 9 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 distant | advmod |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stood | nsubj |
| 11 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 north | conj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 hills | nummod |
| 13 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stood | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 stood | parataxis |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 names | nmod:poss |
| 18 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 darkened | punct |
| 20 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 eyes | amod |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 darkened | nsubj |
| 23 | darkened | darken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | conj |
| 24 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 27 came | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 answer | det |
| 26 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 came | nsubj |
| 27 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 darkened | advcl |
| 28 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Gairig | case |
| 29 | Gairig | Gairig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 came | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 Ilgairig | cc |
| 31 | Ilgairig | Ilgairig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 Gairig | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 north | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 north | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chance's eye | the north | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | distant | two hills | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hill=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | chance | eyes's names | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | darken | past | chance's great eyes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | come | past | the answer | of Gairig and Ilgairig | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of gairig=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | name | eyes = eye | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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