The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 160

Loud Cuchullain laughed, And cried, ‘It quivers like the tail of swine Gladdened by acorn feast!’ then drew he rein And with one sword-stroke felled a youngling Birch And bound it to that spear, and on its bark Silvery and smooth, graved with his lance’s point In Ogham characters the words, ‘Beware!

Who acts: Loud, morn, lance · What happens: laugh, cry, quiver, gladden, draw, rein · To what, where: swine, youngling Birch, morn, Ogham characters · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Loud, morn, lance), 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	Loud	Loud	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
2	Cuchullain	Cuchullain	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Loud	flat
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cried	punct
5	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 cried	cc
6	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quivers	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 quivers	punct
9	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 quivers	nsubj
10	quivers	quiver	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cried	ccomp
11	like	like	ADP	_	13 tail	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tail	det
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quivers	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 swine	case
15	swine	swine	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tail	nmod
16	Gladdened	gladden	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 swine	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 feast	case
18	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 feast	compound
19	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Gladdened	obl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 quivers	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 quivers	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 drew	advmod
23	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	advcl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 rein	nsubj
25	rein	rein	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 drew	xcomp
26	And	and	CCONJ	_	32 felled	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	31 stroke	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	31 stroke	nummod
29	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 stroke	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 sword	punct
31	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felled	obl
32	felled	fell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 rein	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 Birch	det
34	youngling	youngling	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 Birch	compound
35	Birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 felled	obj
36	And	and	CCONJ	_	37 bound	cc
37	bound	bind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
38	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 bound	obj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 spear	case
40	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	41 spear	det
41	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 bound	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 Silvery	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 Silvery	cc
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 bark	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 bark	nmod:poss
46	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 Silvery	obl
47	Silvery	silvery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 bound	parataxis
48	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 smooth	cc
49	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 Silvery	conj
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 graved	punct
51	graved	grave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 Silvery	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	56 point	case
53	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 lance	nmod:poss
54	lance	lance	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 point	nmod:poss
55	’s	's	PART	_	54 lance	case
56	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 graved	obl
57	In	in	ADP	_	59 characters	case
58	Ogham	Ogham	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 characters	compound
59	characters	character	NOUN	Number=Plur	56 point	nmod
60	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 words	det
61	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 characters	conj
62	,	,	PUNCT	_	64 Beware	punct
63	‘	'	PUNCT	_	64 Beware	punct
64	Beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 bound	conj
65	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	Loud					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	cry speech: express	past	Loud not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	quiver	present	morn				like the tail of swine	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	gladden	participle		swine not said here			by acorn feast	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	draw	past	Loud not said here			then		tree rules
6	rein	infinitive	Loud					tree rules
7	fell	past	Loud not said here	a youngling Birch			with one sword stroke	tree rules
8	bind	past	Loud not said here	morn			to that spear	vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient to spear=Co-Patient
9	grave	participle	Loud not said here				with Loud's lance's point in Ogham characters and the words	tree rules
10	beware	infinitive	Loud not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
11	point		Loud's lance		Ogham characters and the words			nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 160