The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 196
Wounded and weak he came to aid his own: Too great such effort for a wasted frame: That was Cuchullain’s death-dirge!’
Who acts: Cuchullain, That · What happens: come, aid, waste, be · To what, where: own, death dirge, Wounded great such effort
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, That), 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 | Wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 effort | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 weak | cc |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Wounded | conj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 weak | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 aid | mark |
| 7 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 came | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 own | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 aid | obj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wounded | punct |
| 11 | Too | too | ADV | _ | 12 great | advmod |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 effort | amod |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 effort | amod |
| 14 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 frame | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 frame | det |
| 17 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 frame | amod |
| 18 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 effort | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 dirge | punct |
| 20 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 dirge | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dirge | cop |
| 22 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 dirge | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Cuchullain | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dirge | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 death | punct |
| 26 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 effort | appos |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 dirge | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 dirge | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Cuchullain | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | aid | to-infinitive | Cuchullain not said here | Cuchullain's own | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | waste | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | past | That | Cuchullain's death dirge | Cuchullain nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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