The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 155
Fiercely rushed the chiefs Against the aggressor.
What happens: rush · To what, where: chiefs, aggressor
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: 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 | Fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 2 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 chiefs | det |
| 4 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rushed | obj |
| 5 | Against | against | ADP | _ | 7 aggressor | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 aggressor | det |
| 7 | aggressor | aggressor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rushed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | the chiefs | the aggressor | fiercely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent chief=Theme against aggressor=Trajectory |
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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