The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 93
For at that hour upon the cradle’s right Stood Conal Carnach; at its left, though young, Swifter in chase, and stronger yet in fight, Cuchullain.
What happens: stand · To what, where: Conal, left
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: 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 hour | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 hour | det |
| 4 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stood | obl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 right | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cradle | det |
| 7 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 right | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 cradle | case |
| 9 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hour | nmod |
| 10 | Stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Conal | Conal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stood | obj |
| 12 | Carnach | Carnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Conal | flat |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 left | punct |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 left | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 left | nmod:poss |
| 16 | left | left | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 young | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 19 young | mark |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Stood | advcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Swifter | punct |
| 21 | Swifter | Swifter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 young | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 chase | case |
| 23 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Swifter | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stronger | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stronger | cc |
| 26 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 Stood | parataxis |
| 27 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 29 fight | advmod |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 fight | case |
| 29 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Stood | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cuchullain | punct |
| 31 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 fight | appos |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Conal | right's left | hour | in fight | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent conal=Theme at left=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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