The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 1
O joy his course through woodland gulfs to follow, Deirdré and they, to Etive’s salt sea lake!
What happens: follow · To what, where: joy
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. 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 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 2 joy | discourse |
| 2 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 course | nmod:poss |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joy | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gulfs | case |
| 6 | woodland | woodland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gulfs | compound |
| 7 | gulfs | gulf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 joy | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gulfs | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Deirdré | punct |
| 11 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 gulfs | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 they | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Deirdré | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lake | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 lake | case |
| 16 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Etive | case |
| 18 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | compound |
| 19 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lake | compound |
| 20 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 joy | conj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 joy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | to-infinitive | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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