The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 155
Upon his feet Cuchullain sprang, his father’s tale complete: That rage divine which gave him strength divine Had fallen on him from heaven.
Who acts: Cuchullain, rage divine, strength divine, father · What happens: spring, give, fall, tell · To what, where: feet, tale, heaven · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain, rage divine, strength divine, father), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 feet | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 feet | nmod:poss |
| 3 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sprang | obl |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sprang | nsubj |
| 5 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 complete | punct |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 father | case |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 complete | nsubj |
| 11 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sprang | parataxis |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 divine | punct |
| 13 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 divine | det |
| 14 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 divine | compound |
| 15 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 complete | conj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 divine | acl:relcl |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 divine | compound |
| 20 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | nsubj |
| 21 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 fallen | aux |
| 22 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 gave | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 fallen | obl |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 heaven | case |
| 26 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fallen | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | Cuchullain | space's feet | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | give | past | that rage divine | tale | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | past · perfect | strength divine | heaven | on CUCHULLAIN | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on he=Location | |||
| 4 | tell | CUCHULLAIN's father | nom tale «communication 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.
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