The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 58
Next morning by that stream the fight began, Two champions face to face: and, every morn, Rang out, renewed, that combat; every eve Again went up from that confederate host The shout of rage.
Who acts: fight, Two champions, eve · What happens: stream, begin, face, renew, go up, host · To what, where: confederate, shout, rage
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 (fight, Two champions, eve), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stream | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 that | case |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 stream | obl |
| 5 | stream | stream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fight | det |
| 7 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stream | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 face | punct |
| 10 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 champions | nummod |
| 11 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 face | nsubj |
| 12 | face | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 stream | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 face | case |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 face | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 morn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 morn | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 morn | punct |
| 18 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 morn | det |
| 19 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stream | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Rang | punct |
| 21 | Rang | Rang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 morn | appos |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 Rang | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 renewed | punct |
| 24 | renewed | renew | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 morn | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 combat | punct |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 combat | det |
| 27 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 morn | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 went | punct |
| 29 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 eve | det |
| 30 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | nsubj |
| 31 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 32 went | advmod |
| 32 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stream | parataxis |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 went | compound:prt |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 confederate | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 confederate | det |
| 36 | confederate | confederate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 went | obl |
| 37 | host | host | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 went | conj |
| 38 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 shout | det |
| 39 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 host | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 rage | case |
| 41 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 shout | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stream | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stream | present | morning | by that; every morn and that combat parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the fight | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | face | present | Two champions | to face | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | renew | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | go up | past | every eve | that confederate | again | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 6 | host | infinitive | every eve not said here | the shout of rage | vn captain-29.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shout=Beneficiary | ||||
| 7 | shout | rage | nom shout «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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