The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 68

Those twenty years run out, the vanquished crane Dropp’d on a stream and straight to salmon changed; Instant his foe, to salmon turned not less, From stream to sea pursued him.

Who acts: salmon, stream · What happens: run out, vanquish, change, not turn, pursue · To what, where: twenty years, Dropp ’d, salmon

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 (salmon, stream), 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 years	det
2	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 years	nummod
3	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 ’d	nsubj
4	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 years	acl
5	out	out	ADP	_	4 run	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 years	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crane	det
8	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 crane	amod
9	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’d	nsubj
10	Dropp	Dropp	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 ’d	compound
11	’d	'd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 stream	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 stream	det
14	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ’d	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 salmon	cc
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	18 salmon	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 salmon	case
18	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 stream	conj
19	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 ’d	acl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 Instant	punct
21	Instant	instant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ’d	parataxis
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 foe	nmod:poss
23	foe	foe	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 Instant	nsubj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 turned	punct
25	to	to	SCONJ	_	27 turned	mark
26	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 turned	nsubj
27	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 Instant	parataxis
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 turned	advmod
29	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 turned	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 stream	punct
31	From	from	ADP	_	32 stream	case
32	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 pursued	nsubj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 sea	case
34	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 stream	nmod
35	pursued	pursue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 turned	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 pursued	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 ’d	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	run out	participle		that twenty years not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	vanquish	participle				tree rules
3	change	participle		Dropp ’d that twenty years the vanquished crane on a stream and salmon not said here		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not turn	past	salmon		less property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	pursue	past	stream to sea	salmon		vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 68

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 68