The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 53
Then turned Mac Roth His car; and sideway shook one hand irate; And lashed the steeds, and reached great Cruachan, And, instant upon all who heard his tale Like lightning fell the battle rage.
Who acts: sideway, tale · What happens: turn, shake, lash, reach, hear, fall · To what, where: Mac, steeds, great Cruachan, battle rage · 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 (sideway, tale), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 turned | advmod |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | Mac | Mac | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 4 | Roth | Roth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Mac | flat |
| 5 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 car | nmod:poss |
| 6 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 turned | obj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 shook | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shook | cc |
| 9 | sideway | sideway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shook | nsubj |
| 10 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 hand | nummod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 irate | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | irate | irate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shook | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lashed | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 lashed | cc |
| 16 | lashed | lash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 steeds | det |
| 18 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lashed | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reached | cc |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 lashed | conj |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Cruachan | amod |
| 23 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 instant | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 instant | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 instant | punct |
| 27 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lashed | parataxis |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 all | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 heard | obl |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 heard | nsubj |
| 31 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 instant | parataxis |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 tale | nmod:poss |
| 33 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | nsubj |
| 34 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 35 lightning | case |
| 35 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tale | nmod |
| 36 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 heard | ccomp |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 rage | det |
| 38 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 rage | compound |
| 39 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fell | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Mac | then | Mac's car obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent mac=Theme car=Result | |||
| 2 | shake | past | sideway | irate property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lash | past | the steeds | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Patient | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | great Cruachan | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cruachan=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hear | past | upon all; who nsubj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | fall | past | sideway's tale like lightning | the battle rage | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rage=Result | ||||
| 7 | tell | sideway | like lightning | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent like=obl |
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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