The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 164
Forth he rushed-- Forth to Cuchullain’s chariot-house, and dragged Abroad that war-car feared of man and yoked White Liath Macha, and his comrade black, And dashed adown the vacant, echoing streets, And passed the gateway towers: the warders slept: Beyond them, propp’d against the city wall, A cripple crunched his mouldering crust.
Who acts: first, war car, warders, cripple · What happens: rush, drag, fear, yoke, dash, echo · To what, where: White Liath, adown, gateway towers, propp, mouldering crust
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 (first, war car, warders, cripple), 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 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 house | punct |
| 5 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 11 house | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 7 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Cuchullain | case |
| 9 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 house | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 chariot | punct |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dragged | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dragged | cc |
| 14 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 15 | Abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 14 dragged | advmod |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 feared | mark |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 car | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 war | punct |
| 19 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feared | nsubj |
| 20 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dragged | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 man | case |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 feared | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 yoked | cc |
| 24 | yoked | yoke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 feared | conj |
| 25 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Liath | amod |
| 26 | Liath | Liath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 yoked | obj |
| 27 | Macha | Macha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Liath | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 black | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 black | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 comrade | nmod:poss |
| 31 | comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 black | nsubj |
| 32 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rushed | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 dashed | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 dashed | cc |
| 35 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 36 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 dashed | obj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 streets | det |
| 38 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 streets | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 echoing | punct |
| 40 | echoing | echo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 streets | amod |
| 41 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dashed | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 passed | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 passed | cc |
| 44 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 towers | det |
| 46 | gateway | gateway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 towers | compound |
| 47 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 passed | obj |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 51 slept | punct |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 warders | det |
| 50 | warders | warder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 slept | nsubj |
| 51 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 rushed | conj |
| 52 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 54 them | punct |
| 53 | Beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 slept | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 propp | punct |
| 56 | propp | propp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 slept | obl |
| 57 | ’d | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 propp | acl |
| 58 | against | against | ADP | _ | 61 wall | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 wall | det |
| 60 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 wall | compound |
| 61 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 ’d | obl |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 cripple | punct |
| 63 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 64 cripple | det |
| 64 | cripple | cripple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 propp | conj |
| 65 | crunched | crunch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 64 cripple | acl |
| 66 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 68 crust | nmod:poss |
| 67 | mouldering | moulder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 68 crust | amod |
| 68 | crust | crust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 crunched | obj |
| 69 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | first | to Cuchullain's chariot house result; forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to house=Result | ||||
| 2 | drag | past | first not said here | abroad property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fear | past | war car | of man | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | yoke | past | war car not said here | White Liath | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent liath=Destination | ||||
| 5 | dash | past | first not said here | adown | the vacant echoing streets obj | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent adown=Patient street=Result | |||
| 6 | echo | gerund | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | pass | past | first not said here | the gateway towers | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | sleep | past | the warders | propp and a cripple | beyond streets = street | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 9 | ' | participle | propp and a cripple not said here | against the city wall | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | crunch | participle | a cripple not said here | first's mouldering crust | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crust=Patient | ||||
| 11 | moulder | gerund | tree rules |
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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