The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 74
‘Is there who dreams that, now my Naisi’s breath Is stilled, his wife will tarry from his side?
Who acts: wife · What happens: be, still, tarry · To what, where: breath, side
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: who acts (wife), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreams | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dreams | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 dreams | expl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 dreams | nsubj |
| 5 | dreams | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dreams | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 stilled | punct |
| 8 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 stilled | advmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 breath | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Naisi | case |
| 12 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stilled | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 stilled | aux:pass |
| 14 | stilled | still | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dreams | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 tarry | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tarry | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tarry | aux |
| 19 | tarry | tarry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 stilled | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tarry | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 dreams | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | there | who nsubj; that obj; dream property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | still | present · passive | my breath | now | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tarry | future | Naisi's wife | Naisi's side | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: 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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