The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 226
Next round the second bulwark raged the war Hour after hour: heroic deeds were done: Heroic deaths were died: at last it fell: Again and nearer rose the conquerors’ shout: Again with bolder foot and forehead flushed Leagh to Cuchullain moved and touched him not But, bending, murmured, ‘Heard you not that sound?’
Who acts: second bulwark, land, nearer, forehead, Cuchullain, you · What happens: rage, do, die, fall, rise, flush · To what, where: heroic deeds, Heroic deaths, last, shout, Leagh
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 (second bulwark, land, nearer, forehead), 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 | ADV | _ | 6 raged | advmod |
| 2 | round | round | ADP | _ | 6 raged | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bulwark | det |
| 4 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 bulwark | amod |
| 5 | bulwark | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raged | nsubj |
| 6 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Hour | det |
| 8 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Hour | compound |
| 9 | Hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raged | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 hour | case |
| 11 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raged | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 13 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 deeds | amod |
| 14 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 done | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 done | aux:pass |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 raged | advcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 died | punct |
| 18 | Heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 deaths | amod |
| 19 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 died | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 died | aux:pass |
| 21 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 raged | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 fell | punct |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 last | case |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raged | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 Again | punct |
| 28 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 26 fell | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rose | cc |
| 30 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 rose | nsubj |
| 31 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 conquerors | det |
| 33 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 shout | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 33 conquerors | case |
| 35 | shout | shout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | obj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 Again | punct |
| 37 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 31 rose | advmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 foot | case |
| 39 | bolder | bold | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 foot | amod |
| 40 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rose | obl |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 flushed | cc |
| 42 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 flushed | nsubj |
| 43 | flushed | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 44 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 flushed | obj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 moved | case |
| 46 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 moved | nsubj |
| 47 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 flushed | conj |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 touched | cc |
| 49 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 fell | conj |
| 50 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 touched | obj |
| 51 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 touched | advmod |
| 52 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 54 bending | cc |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 bending | punct |
| 54 | bending | bend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 touched | advcl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 murmured | punct |
| 56 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 bending | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 sound | punct |
| 58 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 63 sound | punct |
| 59 | Heard | heard | INTJ | _ | 63 sound | discourse |
| 60 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 63 sound | nsubj |
| 61 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 63 sound | advmod |
| 62 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 63 sound | nsubj |
| 63 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fell | obl |
| 64 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 63 sound | punct |
| 65 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 63 sound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past | the second bulwark | hour | next property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | do | past · passive | heroic deeds | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | die | past · passive | Heroic deaths | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | land | last | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at last=Location | |||
| 5 | rise | past | nearer | the conquerors's shout | again | with bolder foot | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shout=Theme | ||
| 6 | flush | past | forehead | Leagh | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent leagh=Source | ||||
| 7 | move | past | Cuchullain | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | not touch | past | land not said here | Leagh | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 9 | bend | gerund | land not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | murmur speech: other | participle | land not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 11 | not sound | you | that nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 12 | shout | the conquerors | nom shout «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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