The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 148
So spake the Firbolg; and they closed in fight: And straightway from his heart to arm and hand Rushed up the strength of all that buried race By him so loved!
Who acts: you, foes · What happens: speak, close, rush up, bury, love · To what, where: Firbolg, race · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, foes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 spake | advmod |
| 2 | spake | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Firbolg | det |
| 4 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 closed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 closed | cc |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 closed | nsubj |
| 8 | closed | close | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 fight | case |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 closed | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 straightway | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 straightway | cc |
| 13 | straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 heart | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heart | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 straightway | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 arm | mark |
| 18 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hand | cc |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arm | conj |
| 21 | Rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 strength | amod |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 Rushed | compound:prt |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 strength | det |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 straightway | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 that | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 that | det:predet |
| 27 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 buried | obl |
| 28 | buried | bury | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 strength | acl:relcl |
| 29 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 buried | obj |
| 30 | By | by | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 buried | obl |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 loved | advmod |
| 33 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 buried | advcl |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | imperative | you not said here | the Firbolg | straightway from Cuchullain's heart and arm and hand and the Rushed strength obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | close | past | foes = foe | in fight | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fight=Topic | ||||
| 3 | rush up | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | bury | past | race | of the Rushed strength; by Cuchullain | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent race=Theme by he=Destination | ||||
| 5 | love | past | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
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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