The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 7
Southward by broad Lough Derg his palace stood: Northward, beside Emania’s lonely mere, In Finnahá, embowered mid lawn and wood, King Lir abode, a warrior, not a seer; Well loved was he, plain man with great, true heart, Who loathed, despite his race, the sorcerer’s art.
Who acts: palace, Well, great true heart · What happens: stand, embower, love, be, loathe, race · To what, where: lonely mere, mid lawn, Well, race
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 (palace, Well, great true heart), 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 | Southward | southward | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 Lough | case |
| 3 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lough | amod |
| 4 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Southward | obl |
| 5 | Derg | Derg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lough | flat |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 palace | nmod:poss |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Northward | punct |
| 10 | Northward | northward | ADV | _ | 8 stood | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 mere | punct |
| 12 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 16 mere | case |
| 13 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 mere | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Emania | case |
| 15 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mere | amod |
| 16 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Finnahá | punct |
| 18 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 Finnahá | case |
| 19 | Finnahá | Finnahá | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 embowered | punct |
| 21 | embowered | embower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 22 | mid | mid | X | _ | 23 lawn | compound |
| 23 | lawn | lawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 embowered | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 wood | cc |
| 25 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lawn | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 abode | punct |
| 27 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 abode | compound |
| 28 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 King | flat |
| 29 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lawn | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 warrior | punct |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 warrior | det |
| 32 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 abode | appos |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seer | punct |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 seer | advmod |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 seer | det |
| 36 | seer | seer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 warrior | conj |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 loved | punct |
| 38 | Well | Well | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 loved | nsubj |
| 39 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 he | cop |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 loved | nsubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 man | punct |
| 43 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 man | amod |
| 44 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 he | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 49 heart | case |
| 46 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 heart | amod |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 great | punct |
| 48 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 heart | amod |
| 49 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 man | nmod |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 loathed | punct |
| 51 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 52 loathed | nsubj |
| 52 | loathed | loathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 heart | acl:relcl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 race | punct |
| 54 | despite | despite | ADP | _ | 56 race | case |
| 55 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 race | nmod:poss |
| 56 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 loathed | obj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 art | punct |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 sorcerer | det |
| 59 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 art | nmod:poss |
| 60 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 59 sorcerer | case |
| 61 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 race | conj |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Lough's palace | Emania's lonely mere | in Finnahá; northward, southward property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside mere=Location | |||
| 2 | embower | past | Lough's palace not said here | mid lawn and wood and King abode | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | past | Well | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | Well | plain man with great true heart conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | loathe | past | great true heart | Well's race and the sorcerer's art | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | race | Well | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=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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