The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 83
From bannered stalls the Red Branch Knights drew nigh Circling that cradle. ’
Who acts: Branch Knights · What happens: draw, circle · To what, where: cradle
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 (Branch Knights), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 stalls | case |
| 2 | bannered | bannered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 stalls | amod |
| 3 | stalls | stall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Knights | det |
| 5 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Branch | flat |
| 6 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Knights | compound |
| 7 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 10 Circling | advmod |
| 10 | Circling | circle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 drew | advcl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 cradle | det |
| 12 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Circling | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | the Branch Knights | from bannered stalls | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from stall=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | circle | gerund | the Branch Knights not said here | that cradle | nigh property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cradle=Co-Theme |
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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