The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 82
That night in dream King Lir had anguish sore, And southward, ere the dawn, rode far away With many a chief to see his babes once more Beside Lough Derg; and lo, at close of day Nighing to Darvra’s lake, the westering sun In splendour on the advancing horsemen shone.
Who acts: King, close · What happens: have, anguish, ere, ride, see, nigh · To what, where: babes, Lough
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 (King, close), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 night | det |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 night | nmod |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 6 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 King | flat |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | anguish | anguish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 9 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anguish | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ere | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ere | cc |
| 12 | southward | southward | ADV | _ | 14 ere | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ere | punct |
| 14 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | parataxis |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dawn | det |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ere | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 rode | punct |
| 18 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 ere | conj |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 away | advmod |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 rode | advmod |
| 21 | With | with | ADP | _ | 24 chief | case |
| 22 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chief | amod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chief | det |
| 24 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rode | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 see | mark |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 rode | advcl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 babes | nmod:poss |
| 28 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 see | obj |
| 29 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 30 more | advmod |
| 30 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 see | advmod |
| 31 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 32 Lough | case |
| 32 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obl |
| 33 | Derg | Derg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Lough | flat |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 57 shone | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 shone | cc |
| 36 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 57 shone | discourse |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 close | punct |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 close | case |
| 39 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 shone | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 day | case |
| 41 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 close | nmod |
| 42 | Nighing | nigh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 close | acl |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 lake | case |
| 44 | Darvra | Darvra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 lake | nmod:poss |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 Darvra | case |
| 46 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Nighing | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 sun | punct |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 sun | det |
| 49 | westering | wester | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 50 sun | amod |
| 50 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 lake | conj |
| 51 | In | in | ADP | _ | 52 splendour | case |
| 52 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 sun | nmod |
| 53 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 horsemen | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 horsemen | det |
| 55 | advancing | advancing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 horsemen | compound |
| 56 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 sun | nmod |
| 57 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 had | conj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | King | night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | anguish | infinitive | King not said here | sore property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ere | past | dawn | southward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ride | past | with a many chief; away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | King's babes | Lough | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer babe=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | nigh | gerund | close of day not said here | to Darvra's lake and the westering sun in splendour on the advancing horsemen | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | wester | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | shine | past | close of day | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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