The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 187
Backward stepp’d Cuchullain paces three: he reached the bank; He uttered low; ‘The Gae-Bulg!’
Who acts: stepp, Cuchullain · What happens: have, pace, reach, utter · To what, where: three, bank
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 (stepp, Cuchullain), 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 | Backward | backward | ADV | _ | 3 ’d | advmod |
| 2 | stepp | stepp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ’d | nsubj |
| 3 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 paces | nsubj |
| 5 | paces | pace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’d | ccomp |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 paces | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 reached | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 reached | nsubj |
| 9 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’d | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reached | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 uttered | punct |
| 13 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 uttered | nsubj |
| 14 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’d | conj |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 uttered | xcomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bulg | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bulg | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Bulg | det |
| 19 | Gae | Gae | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Bulg | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gae | punct |
| 21 | Bulg | Bulg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ’d | parataxis |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bulg | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Bulg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | stepp | the Gae Bulg parataxis; backward property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pace | present | Cuchullain | three | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location three=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Cuchullain | the bank | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | Cuchullain | low property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=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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