The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 211
Cuchullain leaped therein: With feet far set he spurned its brazen floor That roared and sank in fragments.
Who acts: Cuchullain, That · What happens: leap, set, spurn, roar, sink · To what, where: brazen floor, fragments
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 (Cuchullain, That), 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 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 leaped | nsubj |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 2 leaped | advmod |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
| 5 | With | with | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 set | obl |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 set | advmod |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spurned | nsubj |
| 10 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | parataxis |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 floor | nmod:poss |
| 12 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 floor | amod |
| 13 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spurned | obj |
| 14 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 roared | nsubj |
| 15 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spurned | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sank | cc |
| 17 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 roared | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 fragments | case |
| 19 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sank | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | Cuchullain | therein property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | set | past | Cuchullain not said here | with feet; far property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with foot=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | spurn | past | Cuchullain | turn's brazen floor | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | roar | past | That | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sink | past | That not said here | fragments | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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