The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 147

Next morn the Uladh host down swarmed Betwixt those neighbouring hills and round their base Far spread as flood that, widening on its way, Changes the heights to islands.

Who acts: Next morn, widening · What happens: swarm, neighbour, round, spread, widen, change · To what, where: Betwixt, base, way, heights

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 (Next morn, widening), 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	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morn	amod
2	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swarmed	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 host	det
4	Uladh	Uladh	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 host	compound
5	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 swarmed	nsubj
6	down	down	ADV	_	7 swarmed	advmod
7	swarmed	swarm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Betwixt	Betwixt	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 swarmed	obj
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	11 hills	det
10	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 hills	amod
11	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 swarmed	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 swarmed	conj
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 base	nmod:poss
15	base	base	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 round	obj
16	Far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 spread	advmod
17	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 round	advcl
18	as	as	ADP	_	19 flood	case
19	flood	flood	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 spread	obl
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 Changes	mark
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 widening	punct
22	widening	widen	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 Changes	csubj
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 way	nmod:poss
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 widening	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 widening	punct
27	Changes	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 flood	acl:relcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 heights	det
29	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Changes	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	31 islands	case
31	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Changes	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 swarmed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	swarm	past	Next morn	Betwixt		the Uladh host nsubj; that neighbouring hills obj; down property	tree rules
2	neighbour	gerund					tree rules
3	round	present	Next morn not said here	hills's base			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent base=Patient
4	spread	past	Next morn not said here			as flood; far property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	widen	gerund			morn's way		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	change	present	widening	the heights		to islands	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=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 15, sentence 147

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 147