The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 157
Chief on chief Went down before that sword that still, men sware, With sweep that widened like a rainbow’s arch Ran from his hand and harvests reaped of death.
Who acts: Chief, sword, sweep, harvests · What happens: go down, sware, widen, reap · To what, where: sword, hand
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 (Chief, sword, sweep, harvests), 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 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Went | nsubj |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 chief | case |
| 3 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chief | nmod |
| 4 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 Went | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 sword | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 sword | det |
| 8 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Went | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 sware | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 sware | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 still | punct |
| 12 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sware | compound |
| 13 | sware | sware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sword | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sweep | punct |
| 15 | With | with | ADP | _ | 16 sweep | case |
| 16 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Went | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 widened | nsubj |
| 18 | widened | widen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sweep | acl:relcl |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 arch | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rainbow | det |
| 21 | rainbow | rainbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 arch | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 rainbow | case |
| 23 | arch | arch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 widened | obl |
| 24 | Ran | Ran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 arch | appos |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 hand | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 widened | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 reaped | cc |
| 29 | harvests | harvest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 reaped | nsubj |
| 30 | reaped | reap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 widened | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 death | case |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 reaped | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | Chief on chief | that sword | with sweep; down property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before sword=Location | |||
| 2 | sware | that sword | still | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | widen | past | sweep | Chief's hand | like a rainbow's arch | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | reap | past | harvests | of death | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent of death=Initial_Location |
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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