The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 75
Then Trendorn went, a sordid churl, ill-starred, And found that mansion’s gateways closed and barred:
Who acts: Trendorn · What happens: go, star, find, close, bar · To what, where: sordid churl, gateways · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Trendorn), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | Trendorn | Trendorn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 churl | punct |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 churl | det |
| 6 | sordid | sordid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 churl | amod |
| 7 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 starred | punct |
| 9 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 starred | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 ill | punct |
| 11 | starred | star | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 churl | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 closed | mark |
| 16 | mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gateways | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 mansion | case |
| 18 | gateways | gateway | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 found | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 barred | cc |
| 21 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 closed | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Trendorn | a sordid churl | then | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | star | participle | a sordid churl not said here | vn captain-29.8-1-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Trendorn not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | close | participle · passive | mansion's gateways | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bar | participle | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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