The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 65
And lo! like sheep that old and far-famed clan Lay on the war-field, slaughtered to a man.
What happens: fame, slaughter · To what, where: war field
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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 old | cc |
| 2 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 7 old | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 lo | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 sheep | case |
| 5 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 old | obl |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 old | nsubj |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 clan | cc |
| 9 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 clan | amod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 far | punct |
| 11 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 clan | amod |
| 12 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 old | conj |
| 13 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 clan | appos |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 field | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 field | det |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 field | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 war | punct |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clan | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 slaughtered | punct |
| 20 | slaughtered | slaughter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 field | acl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 slaughtered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 old | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fame | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | slaughter | participle | the war field not said here | to a man | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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