The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 74
One hand upreared a sword: Seven chains fell from it.
Who acts: One hand, Seven chains · What happens: uprear, fall · To what, where: sword
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 (One hand, Seven chains), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 hand | nummod |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 upreared | nsubj |
| 3 | upreared | uprear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 upreared | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 fell | punct |
| 7 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 chains | nummod |
| 8 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 upreared | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 it | case |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 upreared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uprear | past | One hand | a sword | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fall | past | Seven chains | sword | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from it=Initial_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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