The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 167
The third time ’neath his feet Down crashed the strong-built chariot to the ground.
What happens: crash, build · To what, where: strong built chariot
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 time | amod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crashed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 7 feet | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 feet | nmod:poss |
| 7 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 time | nmod |
| 8 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 9 crashed | advmod |
| 9 | crashed | crash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 chariot | det |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 chariot | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 strong | punct |
| 13 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 chariot | amod |
| 14 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 crashed | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chariot | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 crashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crash | past | the strong built chariot | time | to the ground result; down property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent chariot=Patient to ground=Result | |||
| 2 | build | participle | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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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