The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 221
Warned by defeat Uladh had raised ere morn, Fronting her camp, three bulwarks: at the first And distant most, three hours the conflict raged.
Who acts: defeat, conflict · What happens: warn, raise, front, rage · To what, where: Uladh, camp · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (defeat, conflict), 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 | Warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 defeat | case |
| 3 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Warned | obl |
| 4 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raised | aux |
| 6 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 defeat | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ere | ere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 morn | amod |
| 8 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fronting | punct |
| 10 | Fronting | front | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Warned | ccomp |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 camp | nmod:poss |
| 12 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Fronting | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 bulwarks | punct |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 bulwarks | nummod |
| 15 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 camp | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 first | punct |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 first | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 first | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 Fronting | parataxis |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 distant | cc |
| 21 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 first | conj |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 19 first | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 raged | punct |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 hours | nummod |
| 25 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 raged | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 conflict | det |
| 27 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 raged | nsubj |
| 28 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 first | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | participle | by defeat | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | raise | past · perfect · passive | defeat not said here | Uladh | ere morn obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme morn=Destination | |||
| 3 | front | gerund | Uladh's camp and three bulwarks | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | rage | past | the conflict | hour | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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