The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 159

The morrow morn Cuchullain reached a lawn: tall autumn grass Whitened within it; but the Beech trees round Were russet brown, the thorn-brakes berry-flushed: Passing, he raised his spear, and launched it forth Earthward: there stood it buried in the soil Halfway, and quivering.

Who acts: morrow morn, tree · What happens: reach, whiten, flush, pass, raise, launch · To what, where: lawn, tall autumn grass, thorn brakes, spear, morn, soil

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 (morrow morn, tree), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 morn	det
2	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 morn	compound
3	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	nsubj
4	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 morn	appos
5	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lawn	det
7	lawn	lawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reached	obj
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	11 grass	punct
9	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
10	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 grass	compound
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lawn	appos
12	Whitened	whiten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 grass	acl
13	within	within	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 Whitened	obl
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 brown	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 brown	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 trees	det
18	Beech	Beech	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 trees	compound
19	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 brown	nsubj
20	round	round	ADP	_	22 russet	case
21	Were	were	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 russet	amod
22	russet	russet	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trees	nmod
23	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 reached	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flushed	punct
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 brakes	det
26	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brakes	compound
27	-	-	PUNCT	_	26 thorn	punct
28	brakes	brake	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 flushed	nsubj:pass
29	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flushed	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 berry	punct
31	flushed	flush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 brown	conj
32	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 Passing	punct
33	Passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 reached	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 raised	punct
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 raised	nsubj
36	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 Passing	parataxis
37	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 spear	nmod:poss
38	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 raised	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 launched	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 launched	cc
41	launched	launch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 launched	obj
43	forth	forth	ADV	_	41 launched	advmod
44	Earthward	Earthward	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 launched	obj
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 stood	punct
46	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	47 stood	advmod
47	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reached	conj
48	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 stood	obj
49	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 stood	xcomp
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 soil	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	52 soil	det
52	soil	soil	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 buried	obl
53	Halfway	halfway	ADV	_	49 buried	advmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 quivering	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 quivering	cc
56	quivering	quiver	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	47 stood	advcl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 reached	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	the morrow morn	a lawn			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lawn=Theme
2	whiten	participle		tall autumn grass not said here		within morn	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	flush	participle · passive		the thorn brakes		berry compound	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	pass	gerund	the morrow morn not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	raise	past	tree	tree's spear			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spear=Theme
6	launch	past	the morrow morn not said here	morn		Earthward obj; forth property	tree rules
7	stand	past	the morrow morn not said here	morn	there		tree rules
8	bury	participle	the morrow morn not said here		the soil	halfway property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in soil=Destination
9	quiver	gerund	the morrow morn not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 11, sentence 159