The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 19
Our household foe ere long will clutch that hand-- Is yon a causeway leading to the land?’
Who acts: household foe, causeway · What happens: clutch, be, lead · To what, where: hand, yon
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (household foe, causeway), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 foe | nmod:poss |
| 2 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 foe | compound |
| 3 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yon | nsubj |
| 4 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 clutch | advmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 clutch | aux |
| 7 | clutch | clutch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 foe | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 hand | det |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 clutch | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 foe | punct |
| 11 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 yon | cop |
| 12 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 causeway | det |
| 14 | causeway | causeway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yon | appos |
| 15 | leading | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 causeway | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 land | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 leading | obl |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 yon | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 yon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clutch | future | Our household foe not said here | that hand | long property | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | present | Our household foe | yon | a causeway appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lead | gerund | a causeway not said here | to the land | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to land=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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