The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 87
Late that eve his kernes Forth from the battle tore him bleeding fast From fifty wounds.
Who acts: eve · What happens: kerne, tore, bleed · To what, where: Fuad, battle, fifty wounds
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 (eve), 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 | Late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 kernes | advmod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 eve | det |
| 3 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 kernes | nsubj |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 eve | acl:relcl |
| 5 | kernes | kerne | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 5 kernes | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 battle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tore | obl |
| 10 | tore | tore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kernes | parataxis |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tore | obj |
| 12 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 tore | advcl |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bleeding | advmod |
| 14 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 wounds | case |
| 15 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 wounds | nummod |
| 16 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 bleeding | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 kernes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kerne | present | that eve Fuad | forth, late property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tore | past | Fuad | the battle | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bleed | gerund | fifty wounds | fast property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from wound=Source |
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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