The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 71

Next changed those salmons twain to dragon-flies: But while they sat in hate on neighbouring pools A dun cow and a red cow drank them up Unwittingly.

Who acts: shapes · What happens: change, sit, neighbour, drink up · To what, where: salmons twain, hate, shapes

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 (shapes), 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	Next	next	ADV	_	2 changed	advmod
2	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 twain	det
4	salmons	salmon	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 twain	compound
5	twain	twain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 changed	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 flies	case
7	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flies	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 dragon	punct
9	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 changed	obl
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 drank	punct
11	But	but	CCONJ	_	27 drank	cc
12	while	while	SCONJ	_	14 sat	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 drank	advcl
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 hate	case
16	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sat	obl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 pools	case
18	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pools	amod
19	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 sat	obl
20	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cow	det
21	dun	dun	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cow	compound
22	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pools	appos
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 cow	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 cow	det
25	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 cow	amod
26	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cow	conj
27	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 changed	conj
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 drank	obj
29	up	up	ADP	_	27 drank	compound:prt
30	Unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	_	27 drank	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 changed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	change	past		that salmons twain		to dragon flies; next property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent twain=Patient
2	sit	past	shapes = shape		hate	on neighbouring pools	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hate=Location
3	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
4	drink up	past		shapes = shape		unwittingly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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 71

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 71