The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 95
From the bank Meantime, the dark magician, Cailitin, He and his sons, with wide and greedy eyes, That still, like one man’s eyes, together moved, Had watched that fight, counting each drop that fell Down from Cuchullain’s wounds.
Who acts: warrior, sons, drop, Cuchullain · What happens: son, move, watch, count, fall down, wound · To what, where: fight, bank Meantime, drop, wounds
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 (warrior, sons, drop, Cuchullain), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 Meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Meantime | det |
| 3 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Meantime | compound |
| 4 | Meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watched | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 magician | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magician | det |
| 7 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 magician | amod |
| 8 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Meantime | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Cailitin | punct |
| 10 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 magician | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Meantime | punct |
| 12 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nsubj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sons | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 watched | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eyes | punct |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 eyes | case |
| 18 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 eyes | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 greedy | cc |
| 20 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 wide | conj |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sons | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eyes | punct |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 eyes | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 30 eyes | advmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 eyes | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 30 eyes | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 man | nummod |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 man | case |
| 30 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sons | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 moved | punct |
| 32 | together | together | ADV | _ | 33 moved | advmod |
| 33 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 sons | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 moved | punct |
| 35 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 watched | aux |
| 36 | watched | watch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 37 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 fight | det |
| 38 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 watched | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 counting | punct |
| 40 | counting | count | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 watched | advcl |
| 41 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 drop | det |
| 42 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 counting | obj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 fell | nsubj |
| 44 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 drop | acl:relcl |
| 45 | Down | down | ADV | _ | 44 fell | advmod |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 49 wounds | case |
| 47 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 48 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 47 Cuchullain | case |
| 49 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fell | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | son | warrior | wide eyes conj; one man's eyes That conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | move | past | together property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | past · perfect | warrior's sons and wide eyes and one man's eyes That | that fight | the bank Meantime and the dark magician | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fight=Theme | |||
| 4 | count | gerund | warrior's sons and wide eyes and one man's eyes That not said here | each drop | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drop=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fall down | past | each drop | Cuchullain's wounds | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from wound=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | wound | Cuchullain | nom wound «state 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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