The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 10
When the second battle is well nigh lost Cuchullain wakes; and Meave is driven in utter overthrow across the Shannon.
Who acts: Cuchullain · What happens: lose, wake, drive · To what, where: second battle, Meave, utter overthrow
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cuchullain), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 lost | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 battle | det |
| 3 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 lost | aux:pass |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 lost | advmod |
| 7 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 8 lost | advmod |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wakes | advcl |
| 9 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 wakes | nsubj |
| 10 | wakes | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 driven | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 driven | cc |
| 13 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 driven | aux:pass |
| 15 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wakes | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 overthrow | case |
| 17 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 overthrow | amod |
| 18 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 driven | obl |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 Shannon | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Shannon | det |
| 21 | Shannon | Shannon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 overthrow | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wakes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | present · passive | the second battle | nigh, well property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | wake | present | Cuchullain | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drive | present · passive | Meave | utter overthrow across the Shannon | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in overthrow=Destination |
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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