The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 143
Profounder wounds by far That day than on the first the warriors gored, Since closer was the fight.
Who acts: Profounder, warriors · What happens: wound, gore, be
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: who acts (Profounder, warriors), 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 | Profounder | profounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wounds | nsubj |
| 2 | wounds | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 day | advmod |
| 5 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 day | det |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wounds | obl |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 first | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 first | det |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 2 wounds | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 warriors | det |
| 12 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gored | nsubj |
| 13 | gored | gore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 first | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fight | punct |
| 15 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 19 fight | case |
| 16 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 fight | amod |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 fight | cop |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fight | det |
| 19 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wounds | parataxis |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wounds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wound | present | Profounder | day | than the first | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | gore | past | the warriors | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | past | since the closer fight | tree rules |
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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