The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 167

On the Firbolg’s brow A shadow fell:--‘All weapons there,’ he mused, ‘Have place alike: if on him falls the rage He will not spare the Gae-Bulg!’

Who acts: shadow, Red · What happens: fall, muse, have, not spare · To what, where: weapons, brow, place, rage, Gae Bulg

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 (shadow, Red), 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	On	on	ADP	_	5 brow	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Firbolg	det
3	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 brow	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Firbolg	case
5	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
6	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 shadow	det
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 weapons	punct
10	--	--	PUNCT	_	13 weapons	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 weapons	punct
12	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 weapons	det
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 fell	obl
14	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 weapons	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 mused	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 mused	punct
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 mused	nsubj
18	mused	muse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Have	punct
20	‘	‘	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 Have	aux
21	Have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 mused	conj
22	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Have	obj
23	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Have	xcomp
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 falls	punct
25	if	if	SCONJ	_	28 falls	mark
26	on	on	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 falls	obl
28	falls	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fell	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 rage	det
30	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 falls	obj
31	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 spare	nsubj
32	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 spare	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 spare	advmod
34	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 falls	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Bulg	det
36	Gae	Gae	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 Bulg	compound
37	-	-	PUNCT	_	36 Gae	punct
38	Bulg	Bulg	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 spare	obj
39	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 falls	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	28 falls	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a shadow	all weapons	the Firbolg's brow		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on brow=Location
2	muse	past	shadow				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have		shadow not said here	place		alike property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient
4	fall a condition, not said to happen	present	a shadow not said here	the rage		on Red	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient rage=Result
5	not spare	future	Red	the Gae Bulg			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent bulg=Asset

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 167

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 167