The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 141
Then leaped the champions on their battle-cars And launched them into battle.
What happens: leap, launch · To what, where: champions, battle cars, battle
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 leaped | advmod |
| 2 | leaped | leap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 champions | det |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leaped | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 cars | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 cars | nmod:poss |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cars | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 battle | punct |
| 9 | cars | car | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 leaped | obl |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 launched | cc |
| 11 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 leaped | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 launched | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 battle | case |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 launched | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leaped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leap | past | the champions | champions's battle cars | then | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme champion=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | launch | past | champions = champion | into battle result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer they=Theme into battle=Result |
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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