The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 120
Ninety days Had fled successive since that strife began, When, on the evening of the ninetieth day, His strength entire, and victory eagle-winged Fanning his ardent cheek, Cuchullain scaled Once more that specular rock.
Who acts: strife, victory eagle, Cuchullain · What happens: flee, begin, wing, fan, scale · To what, where: Ninety days, ardent cheek, specular rock
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strife, victory eagle, Cuchullain), 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 | Ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fled | aux |
| 4 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fled | xcomp |
| 6 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 9 began | mark |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 strife | det |
| 8 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fled | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 When | punct |
| 11 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 fled | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 evening | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 evening | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 evening | det |
| 15 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fled | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 day | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 day | det |
| 18 | ninetieth | ninetieth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 day | compound |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evening | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 strength | punct |
| 21 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 strength | nmod:poss |
| 22 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 evening | conj |
| 23 | entire | entire | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 strength | amod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 winged | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 winged | cc |
| 26 | victory | victory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 eagle | amod |
| 27 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 winged | nsubj |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 eagle | punct |
| 29 | winged | wing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fled | parataxis |
| 30 | Fanning | fan | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 winged | xcomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 cheek | amod |
| 33 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Fanning | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 scaled | punct |
| 35 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 scaled | nsubj |
| 36 | scaled | scale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 winged | conj |
| 37 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 38 more | advmod |
| 38 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 36 scaled | advmod |
| 39 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 rock | det |
| 40 | specular | specular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 rock | amod |
| 41 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 scaled | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee | past · perfect · passive | Ninety days | evening | successive property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | begin | past | that strife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | wing | past | victory eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fan | gerund | victory eagle not said here | strife's ardent cheek | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scale | past | Cuchullain | that specular rock | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Source |
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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