The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 120
Next morn Neara’s sons outsped the rest Car-borne with brandished spears; and, ere the dew Was lifted, came to where Cuchullain sat Beneath an oak, sporting with black-birds twain That followed him for aye.
Who acts: Next morn, Cuchullain · What happens: outsp, bear, brandish, ere, lift, come · To what, where: rest, dew, oak, Cuchullain
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Next morn, Cuchullain), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morn | amod |
| 2 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outsped | nsubj |
| 3 | Neara | Neara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sons | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 Neara | case |
| 5 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 outsped | nsubj |
| 6 | outsped | outsp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rest | det |
| 8 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 outsped | obj |
| 9 | Car | Car | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | appos |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Car | punct |
| 11 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 rest | acl |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spears | case |
| 13 | brandished | brandish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 spears | amod |
| 14 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 borne | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 ere | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 ere | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 and | punct |
| 18 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 outsped | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 dew | det |
| 20 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 lifted | aux:pass |
| 22 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 ere | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 came | punct |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 ere | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 where | case |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 sat | advmod |
| 27 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sat | nsubj |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 came | advcl |
| 29 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 31 oak | case |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 oak | det |
| 31 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sat | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 sporting | punct |
| 33 | sporting | sport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 sat | advcl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 twain | case |
| 35 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 birds | amod |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 black | punct |
| 37 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 twain | compound |
| 38 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 sporting | obl |
| 39 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 followed | nsubj |
| 40 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sporting | acl:relcl |
| 41 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 followed | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 aye | case |
| 43 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 followed | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 outsped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | outsp | past | Next morn | the rest | Neara's sons nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bear | participle | the rest not said here | with brandished spears | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | brandish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | ere | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | lift | past · passive | the dew | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | come | past | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | sit | past | Cuchullain | a oak | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beneath oak=Location | ||||
| 8 | sport | gerund | Cuchullain not said here | with birds twain | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | follow | past | Cuchullain | for aye | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme for aye=Attribute |
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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