The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 59

Terror died, And rapture came instead, and mystic mirth They knew not whence: and thus Finola cried: ‘Brothers! the Tailkenn treads our Erin’s earth!’

Who acts: Terror, rapture, mystic mirth, Finola, Tailkenn · What happens: die, come, not know, cry, tread · To what, where: Brothers

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Terror, rapture, mystic mirth, Finola), 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	Terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 died	nsubj
2	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
4	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 came	cc
5	rapture	rapture	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 knew	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 knew	cc
10	mystic	mystic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 mirth	amod
11	mirth	mirth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 knew	nsubj
12	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 knew	advmod
15	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	13 knew	advmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cried	cc
18	thus	thus	ADV	_	20 cried	advmod
19	Finola	Finola	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 cried	nsubj
20	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 died	conj
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 Brothers	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 Brothers	punct
23	Brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 treads	obl
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 Brothers	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Tailkenn	det
26	Tailkenn	Tailkenn	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 treads	nsubj
27	treads	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 cried	conj
28	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 Erin	nmod:poss
29	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 earth	nmod:poss
30	’s	's	PART	_	29 Erin	case
31	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 treads	obj
32	!	!	PUNCT	_	27 treads	punct
33	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	die	past	Terror			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	come	past	rapture		instead property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	not know	past	mystic mirth		Twas = twa nsubj; whence property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	cry speech: express	past	Finola		thus property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tread	present	the Tailkenn	Brothers	our Erin's earth obj	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location earth=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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 59

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 59