The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 234
A marvel! for the wounded man that slept All day with bandages enswathed, up-towered Full-armed for fight a champion spear in hand, Work of some god!
Who acts: wounded man, marvel, god · What happens: sleep, enswath, tower, work
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 (wounded man, marvel, god), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 marvel | det |
| 2 | marvel | marvel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 enswathed | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 marvel | punct |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marvel | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 slept | nsubj |
| 9 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | acl:relcl |
| 10 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 bandages | case |
| 13 | bandages | bandage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 slept | obl |
| 14 | enswathed | enswath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 towered | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 towered | advmod |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 up | punct |
| 18 | towered | tower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 enswathed | conj |
| 19 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 armed | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Full | punct |
| 21 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 towered | xcomp |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 fight | case |
| 23 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 towered | obl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 spear | det |
| 25 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spear | compound |
| 26 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 towered | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hand | case |
| 28 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spear | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Work | punct |
| 30 | Work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 spear | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 god | case |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 god | det |
| 33 | god | god | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Work | nmod |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 enswathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sleep | past | the wounded man | day | with bandages | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | enswath | participle | a marvel for the wounded man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tower | participle | a marvel for the wounded man not said here | for fight; a champion spear in hand and Work of some god parataxis; armed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | work | some god | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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