The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 88
He is slender as a maid; but in the crisis of battle, when his spirit kindles, his stature becomes gigantic.
Who acts: Cuchullain, spirit, stature · What happens: be, kindle, become · To what, where: crisis
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 (Cuchullain, spirit, stature), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 slender | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slender | cop |
| 3 | slender | slender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 maid | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 maid | det |
| 6 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 slender | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 becomes | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 becomes | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 crisis | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crisis | det |
| 11 | crisis | crisis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 battle | case |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 crisis | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 becomes | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 kindles | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 17 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 kindles | nsubj |
| 18 | kindles | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 becomes | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 kindles | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 stature | nmod:poss |
| 21 | stature | stature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 becomes | nsubj |
| 22 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 slender | conj |
| 23 | gigantic | gigantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 becomes | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 slender | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Cuchullain | as a maid; slender property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | kindle | present | Cuchullain's spirit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | become | present | Cuchullain's stature | in the crisis of battle result; gigantic property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in crisis=Result |
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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