The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 223

He raised again his head: once more he sang: ‘Each battle was a game, a jest, a sport Till came, fore-doomed, Ferdīa to the Ford.

Who acts: man, battle, game · What happens: raise, sing, be, come, doom · To what, where: head, game, Ferdīa

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 (man, battle, game), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 raised	nsubj
2	raised	raise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	again	again	ADV	_	2 raised	advmod
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 head	nmod:poss
5	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 raised	obj
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 sang	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 sang	nsubj
10	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 raised	parataxis
11	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 sang	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 game	punct
13	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 battle	det
14	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 game	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 game	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 game	det
17	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 came	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 jest	punct
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 jest	det
20	jest	jest	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 game	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sport	punct
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 sport	det
23	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 game	conj
24	Till	Till	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sport	appos
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sang	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 doomed	punct
27	fore	fore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 doomed	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 fore	punct
29	doomed	doom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 came	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Ferdīa	punct
31	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 doomed	obl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 Ford	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 Ford	det
34	Ford	Ford	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 doomed	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 raised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	raise	past	man	man's head	again		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
2	sing speech: express	past	man				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	is a	past	each battle	a game and a jest and a sport		a jest conj; a sport conj	tree rules
4	come	past	a game and a jest and a sport				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	doom	participle	a game and a jest and a sport not said here	Ferdīa		to the Ford; fore compound	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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 223

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 223