The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 97
We laughed to mark it, while far off we heard Ainli with Ardan sing as bird with bird.
Who acts: We · What happens: laugh, mark, hear · To what, where: berry, Ainli
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: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 laughed | nsubj |
| 2 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 mark | mark |
| 4 | mark | mark | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 laughed | xcomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mark | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 heard | advmod |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 heard | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 laughed | conj |
| 12 | Ainli | Ainli | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sing | case |
| 14 | Ardan | Ardan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sing | compound |
| 15 | sing | sing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 bird | case |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bird | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | mark | to-infinitive | We not said here | berry | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | we | Ainli | with Ardan sing; as bird with bird; far property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ainli=Stimulus |
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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