The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 72
From them two bull-calves sprang That, grown, with battle thunders dinned the realm For eighty years!
Who acts: two bull calves, battle thunders · What happens: spring, grow, din · To what, where: That, realm
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 (two bull calves, battle thunders), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sprang | obl |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 calves | nummod |
| 4 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 calves | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 bull | punct |
| 6 | calves | calf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sprang | nsubj |
| 7 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 sprang | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 grown | punct |
| 10 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 sprang | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dinned | punct |
| 12 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 dinned | mark |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thunders | compound |
| 14 | thunders | thunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dinned | nsubj |
| 15 | dinned | din | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 grown | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 realm | det |
| 17 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dinned | obj |
| 18 | For | for | ADP | _ | 20 years | case |
| 19 | eighty | eighty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 years | nummod |
| 20 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dinned | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring | past | two bull calves | That | from shapes = shape | tree rules | |||
| 2 | grow | participle | two bull calves not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | din | past | battle thunders | the realm | year | 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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