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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 177

As it flew The swift one caught it; poised it; hurled it home: It pierced that youth from back to breast; he fell Dead on the chariot’s floor.

Who acts: javelin, swift one, youth · What happens: fly, catch, poise, hurl, pierce, fall · To what, where: javelin, youth, back, floor

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 (javelin, swift one, youth), 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

marknsubjdetamodnsubjccompobjpunctconjobjpunctconjobjadvmodpunctnsubjconjmarkobjcaseoblcaseoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcasedetnmod:posscaseoblpunctrootAsSCONJitPRONflewVERBTheDETswiftADJoneNOUNcaughtVERBitPRON;PUNCTpoisedVERBitPRON;PUNCThurledVERBitPRONhomeADV:PUNCTItPRONpiercedVERBthatSCONJyouthNOUNfromADPbackNOUNtoADPbreastNOUN;PUNCThePRONfellVERBDeadADVonADPtheDETchariotNOUN’sPARTfloorNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AsasSCONJ_3 flewmark
2ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 flewnsubj
3flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 onedet
5swiftswiftADJDegree=Pos6 oneamod
6oneoneNOUNNumber=Sing7 caughtnsubj
7caughtcatchVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 flewccomp
8ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 caughtobj
9;;PUNCT_10 poisedpunct
10poisedpoiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 flewconj
11ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 poisedobj
12;;PUNCT_13 hurledpunct
13hurledhurlVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 flewconj
14ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 hurledobj
15homehomeADV_13 hurledadvmod
16::PUNCT_18 piercedpunct
17ItitPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs18 piercednsubj
18piercedpierceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 hurledconj
19thatthatSCONJ_20 youthmark
20youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing18 piercedobj
21fromfromADP_22 backcase
22backbackNOUNNumber=Sing18 piercedobl
23totoADP_24 breastcase
24breastbreastNOUNNumber=Sing18 piercedobl
25;;PUNCT_27 fellpunct
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 fellnsubj
27fellfallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 flewconj
28DeaddeadADV_27 felladvmod
29ononADP_33 floorcase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 chariotdet
31chariotchariotNOUNNumber=Sing33 floornmod:poss
32’s'sPART_31 chariotcase
33floorfloorNOUNNumber=Sing27 fellobl
34..PUNCT_3 flewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1flypastjavelintree rules
2catchpastthe swift onejavelinvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3poisepastjavelin not said herejavelintree rules
4hurlpastjavelin not said herejavelinhome propertyvn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5piercepastjavelinyouthbackto breastvn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent youth=Patient
6fallpastyouththe chariot's floordead propertyvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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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