The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 67
Twenty years High up they fought; to each side Erin’s birds Flocking in clans, the factions of the heavens.
Who acts: kings, birds · What happens: fight, flock · To what, where: clans
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 (kings, birds), 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 | Twenty | twenty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 High | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 fought | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fought | nsubj |
| 6 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 High | advcl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 fought | punct |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 side | det |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fought | obl |
| 11 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 birds | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Erin | case |
| 13 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 side | nmod |
| 14 | Flocking | flock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 birds | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 clans | case |
| 16 | clans | clan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Flocking | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 factions | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 factions | det |
| 19 | factions | faction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 birds | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 heavens | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 heavens | det |
| 22 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 factions | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 High | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | kings = king | to each side Erin's birds and the factions of the heavens | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flock | gerund | Erin's birds and the factions of the heavens not said here | clans | vn herd-47.5.2 «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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