The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 78

Suddenly the forces of all the other kingdoms fell again upon the northern land, stirred up by ancient hatred, and led on by a remnant of Cailitin’s ‘Magic Clan.’

Who acts: forces · What happens: fall, stir up, lead on · To what, where: northern land

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (forces), 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	Suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 forces	det
3	forces	force	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fell	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 kingdoms	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 kingdoms	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kingdoms	det
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 kingdoms	amod
8	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 forces	nmod
9	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	again	again	ADV	_	9 fell	advmod
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	14 land	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
13	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stirred	punct
16	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 land	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 stirred	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 hatred	case
19	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 hatred	amod
20	hatred	hatred	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stirred	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 led	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 led	cc
23	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fell	parataxis
24	on	on	ADP	_	23 led	compound:prt
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 remnant	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 remnant	det
27	remnant	remnant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 led	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	33 Clan	case
29	Cailitin	Cailitin	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Clan	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Cailitin	case
31	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 Magic	compound
32	Magic	Magic	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 Clan	compound
33	Clan	Clan	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 remnant	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 led	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the forces of all other kingdoms		the northern land	again	suddenly property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon land=Location
2	stir up	participle		the northern land not said here			by ancient hatred	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition
3	lead on	participle					by a remnant of Cailitin's Magic Clan	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by remnant=Destination

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 78

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 78