The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 99
At last the strength Ceased from his arm; and opened once again His wounds late closed; and back he sank, and died.
Who acts: strength · What happens: cease, open, close, sink, die, wound · To what, where: strength, arm, 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 (strength), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 strength | det |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 last | nsubj |
| 5 | Ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strength | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 arm | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Ceased | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 opened | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 opened | cc |
| 11 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | parataxis |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 again | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 wounds | advmod |
| 14 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 opened | obj |
| 16 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 closed | advmod |
| 17 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 wounds | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 sank | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 sank | cc |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 22 sank | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 sank | nsubj |
| 22 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 opened | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 died | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 died | cc |
| 25 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sank | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | the strength not said here | strength's arm | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | open | past | strength's wounds | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wound=Theme | |||||
| 3 | close | participle | strength's wounds not said here | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | strength | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | die | past | strength not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | wound | strength | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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