The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 25
Then held her from him, on her countenance bright Gazing.
What happens: hold · To what, where: sudden, countenance
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 held | advmod |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 held | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 countenance | punct |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 countenance | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obl |
| 10 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Gazing | amod |
| 11 | Gazing | Gazing | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 countenance | appos |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | sudden | sudden's countenance | then | from Naisi | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent she=Theme on countenance=Location |
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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