The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 55
That eve Cuchullain drank the wave of Neeth, And wading reached Murthemné’s soil, his charge And knelt, and kissed it.
Who acts: eve, wading, Murthemné · What happens: drink, reach, kneel, kiss, wave, soil · To what, where: wave, soil, Neeth
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 (eve, wading, Murthemné), 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 | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 eve | det |
| 2 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drank | nsubj |
| 3 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 eve | appos |
| 4 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wave | det |
| 6 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drank | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Neeth | case |
| 8 | Neeth | Neeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 wave | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 reached | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 reached | cc |
| 11 | wading | wading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | nsubj |
| 12 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | parataxis |
| 13 | Murthemné | Murthemné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 soil | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Murthemné | case |
| 15 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 reached | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 charge | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 charge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soil | conj |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 knelt | cc |
| 20 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 reached | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 kissed | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 kissed | cc |
| 23 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 drank | parataxis |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 kissed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 drank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink | past | that eve | the wave of Neeth | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | past | wading | Murthemné's soil and wading's charge | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent soil=Theme | ||||
| 3 | kneel | past | wading not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | kiss | past | wave | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | wave | Neeth | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | soil | Murthemné | nom soil «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | charge | wading | nom charge «act transitive»: 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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