The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 36
Lir sadly mused; but answered: ‘Let it be!’
Who acts: Lir · What happens: muse, answer, let, be · To what, where: Lir
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lir), 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 | Lir | lir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 3 mused | advmod |
| 3 | mused | muse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 answered | punct |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 answered | cc |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 mused | parataxis |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 9 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 mused | parataxis |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 Let | obj |
| 11 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 Let | xcomp |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | participle · passive | Lir | sadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | Lir | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | be | infinitive | Lir not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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