The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 189
Bending low, Low as that stream, the war-game’s crowning feat, He launched it on Ferdīa’s breast.
Who acts: Leagh, game ’s · What happens: bend, crown, launch · To what, where: feat, breast
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 (Leagh, game ’s), 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 | Bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 launched | advcl |
| 2 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Bending | xcomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Low | punct |
| 4 | Low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 low | conj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 stream | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 stream | det |
| 7 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bending | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ’s | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ’s | det |
| 10 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 game | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 war | punct |
| 12 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ’s | compound |
| 13 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stream | nmod |
| 14 | crowning | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 ’s | acl |
| 15 | feat | feat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 crowning | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bending | punct |
| 17 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 launched | nsubj |
| 18 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 launched | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 breast | case |
| 21 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 breast | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Ferdīa | case |
| 23 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 launched | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | gerund | Leagh not said here | as that stream the game ’s; low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | crown | gerund | the game ’s not said here | feat | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feat=Theme | ||||
| 3 | launch | past | Leagh | feat | Ferdīa's breast | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme on breast=Destination |
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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