The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 59
Old friendships died; And from the dust of ages injuries old Leaped up like warriors armed.
Who acts: Old friendships · What happens: die, leap up · To what, where: dust, armed
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old friendships), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 friendships | amod |
| 2 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 died | nsubj |
| 3 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 dust | punct |
| 5 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dust | cc |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 dust | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 dust | det |
| 8 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 died | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ages | case |
| 10 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 dust | nmod |
| 11 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 old | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ages | amod |
| 13 | Leaped | leap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 old | acl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 Leaped | compound:prt |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 warriors | case |
| 16 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 armed | obl |
| 17 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Leaped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | past | Old friendships | the dust of ages | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from dust=Causer | ||||
| 2 | leap up | participle | armed like warriors | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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