The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 91
With beckoning hand At last that Portent summoned from the main A huge sea-snake: round him it twined its knots: Then on Cuchullain fell the rage from heaven: A sword-blow, and that vast sea-worm lay dead!
Who acts: Portent, hand, that, sword blow · What happens: beckon, summon, twine, fall, worm, lay · To what, where: hand, last, knots, rage, Cuchullain
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 (Portent, hand, that, sword blow), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 2 beckoning | mark |
| 2 | beckoning | beckon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 summoned | advcl |
| 3 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beckoning | obj |
| 4 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 last | case |
| 5 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beckoning | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 summoned | mark |
| 7 | Portent | Portent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 summoned | nsubj |
| 8 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 main | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 main | det |
| 11 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 summoned | xcomp |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 snake | det |
| 13 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 snake | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snake | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 sea | punct |
| 16 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 main | nsubj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 twined | punct |
| 18 | round | round | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 twined | obl |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 twined | nsubj |
| 21 | twined | twine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | conj |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 knots | nmod:poss |
| 23 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 twined | obj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 fell | punct |
| 25 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 fell | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 Cuchullain | case |
| 27 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 28 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 twined | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rage | det |
| 30 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 heaven | case |
| 32 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fell | obl |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 blow | punct |
| 34 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 blow | det |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blow | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sword | punct |
| 37 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lay | nsubj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 worm | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 worm | cc |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 worm | nsubj |
| 41 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 worm | amod |
| 42 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 worm | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 sea | punct |
| 44 | worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 blow | conj |
| 45 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 summoned | parataxis |
| 46 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 lay | xcomp |
| 47 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | gerund | Portent not said here | hand | last | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | summon | past | Portent | main property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | twine | past | hand | hand's knots | round snake | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent knot=Theme round he=Destination | |||
| 4 | fall | past | hand not said here | the rage | Cuchullain | then | from heaven | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient rage=Extent from heaven=Initial_State | |
| 5 | worm | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | lay | present | a sword blow and vast sea worm | dead property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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