The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 36
‘Great Pan was dead,’--slain by the shaft of a mightier light.
Who acts: Great Pan · What happens: be, slay
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Great Pan), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Pan | amod |
| 3 | Pan | Pan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 dead | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dead | cop |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 slain | punct |
| 9 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dead | conj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 shaft | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shaft | det |
| 12 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slain | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 light | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 15 | mightier | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 light | amod |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shaft | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Great Pan | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | slay | participle | Great Pan not said here | by the shaft of a mightier light | vn murder-42.1 «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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