The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 184
The end was nigh: Cuchullain’s shield splintered upon his arm Served him no more; and through his fenceless side Ferdīa drave the sword.
Who acts: end, shield, arm, Ferdīa · What happens: be, splinter, serve, drave · To what, where: end, sword, fenceless side
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 (end, shield, arm, Ferdīa), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 end | det |
| 2 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nigh | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nigh | cop |
| 4 | nigh | nigh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 splintered | punct |
| 6 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 shield | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Cuchullain | case |
| 8 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 splintered | nsubj |
| 9 | splintered | splinter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nigh | parataxis |
| 10 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 13 Served | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 arm | nmod:poss |
| 12 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Served | nsubj |
| 13 | Served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 splintered | advcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Served | obj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 Served | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 drave | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 drave | cc |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 side | nmod:poss |
| 21 | fenceless | fenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 side | amod |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drave | obl |
| 23 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 drave | nsubj |
| 24 | drave | drave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 splintered | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 drave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 nigh | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the end | nigh property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | splinter | past | Cuchullain's shield | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | serve | past | end's arm | end | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drave | infinitive | Ferdīa | the sword | end's fenceless side | tree rules |
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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