🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 175

Upward from the Ford Again Cuchullain reached that shield: again With spasm of knee Ferdīa flung him far, While Leagh in scorn reviled him: ‘As the flood Shoots on the tempest’s blast its puny foam; The oak-tree casts its dead leaf on the wave; The mill-wheel showers its spray; the shameless woman Hurls on the mere that babe which was her shame, So hurls he forth that fairy-child bewitched Whom men misdeemed for warrior!’

Who acts: Again Cuchullain, spasm, Leagh, oak tree, mill wheel, shameless woman · What happens: reach, fling, revile, cast, shower, hurl · To what, where: shield, Cuchullain, dead leaf, wave, spray, mere

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 (Again Cuchullain, spasm, Leagh, oak tree), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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