The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 178
Fate-compelled, their feet Drew near, then reached that stream which backward fled Leaving its channel dry.
Who acts: compelled feet, stream · What happens: compel, reach, flee, leave, channel · To what, where: stream, channel
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 (compelled feet, stream), 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 | Fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 compelled | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fate | punct |
| 3 | compelled | compel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 feet | amod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 feet | punct |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | Drew | Drew | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 8 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 reached | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 near | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 reached | advmod |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 stream | det |
| 13 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 fled | nsubj |
| 15 | backward | backward | ADV | _ | 16 fled | advmod |
| 16 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 stream | acl:relcl |
| 17 | Leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 fled | xcomp |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 channel | nmod:poss |
| 19 | channel | channel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Leaving | obj |
| 20 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Leaving | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | compel | participle | Fate compound | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reach | past | foes's compelled feet | that stream | then | Drew nsubj; near property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | ||
| 3 | flee | past | that stream | backward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | leave | gerund | that stream not said here | stream's channel | dry property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent channel=Theme | |||
| 5 | channel | stream | nom channel «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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