The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 83

That Watch-Hound watching still by Uladh’s gate Is mightier thrice than Uladh: on his brow Spring-tide sits throned; yet ruin loads his hand.

Who acts: Hound, That, ruin · What happens: watch, be, sit, throne, load, tide · To what, where: mightier thrice, brow Spring tide, hand

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 (Hound, That, ruin), 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 thrice	nsubj
2	Watch	watch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 thrice	aux
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Hound	punct
4	Hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 thrice	nsubj
5	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 Hound	acl
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 watching	advmod
7	by	by	ADP	_	10 gate	case
8	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 gate	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 Uladh	case
10	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 watching	obl
11	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrice	cop
12	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 thrice	amod
13	thrice	thrice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	than	than	ADP	_	15 Uladh	case
15	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 thrice	nmod
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 sits	punct
17	on	on	ADP	_	22 tide	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 tide	nmod:poss
19	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tide	compound
20	Spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tide	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 Spring	punct
22	tide	tide	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sits	obl
23	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 thrice	parataxis
24	throned	throne	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 sits	xcomp
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 loads	punct
26	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	28 loads	cc
27	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 loads	nsubj
28	loads	load	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 sits	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 hand	nmod:poss
30	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 loads	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 thrice	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	gerund	Hound not said here			still	by Uladh's gate	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by gate=Location
2	is a	infinitive	That	mightier thrice			than Uladh; Hound nsubj	tree rules
3	sit	present			Hound's brow Spring tide			tree rules
4	throne	participle						tree rules
5	load	present	ruin	Hound's hand				vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
6	tide		Hound					nom tide «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/83/

🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 83

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 83