The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 176
Then from heaven Came down upon Cuchullain, like the night, The madness-rage.
What happens: come down · To what, where: heaven
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 | 4 Came | advmod |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 heaven | case |
| 3 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Came | obl |
| 4 | Came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 Came | advmod |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 Cuchullain | case |
| 7 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Came | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 night | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 11 night | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 night | det |
| 11 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rage | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rage | det |
| 14 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rage | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 madness | punct |
| 16 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 night | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | heaven | then; night | upon Cuchullain; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Initial_Location |
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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