The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 17
Betwixt that island and the forest green A causeway stretched.
What happens: stretch · To what, where: causeway, Betwixt
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. 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 | Betwixt | betwixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Betwixt | appos |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 green | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 green | det |
| 6 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 green | compound |
| 7 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 island | conj |
| 8 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 causeway | det |
| 9 | causeway | causeway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 green | appos |
| 10 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 causeway | acl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Betwixt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | participle | a causeway not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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