The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 252
And now the nearest of those bulwarks three He reached, and o’er its ruins swept, back driving The conquerors late now conquered.
Who acts: Ilgairig, sunshaft · What happens: reach, sweep, drive, conquer, ruin · To what, where: conquerors
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 (Ilgairig, sunshaft), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reached | cc |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 three | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 nearest | det |
| 4 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 three | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 bulwarks | case |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 bulwarks | det |
| 7 | bulwarks | bulwark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 nearest | obl |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 reached | advcl |
| 9 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 swept | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swept | cc |
| 13 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 15 ruins | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 ruins | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swept | obl |
| 16 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reached | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 back | punct |
| 18 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 swept | advmod |
| 19 | driving | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 swept | xcomp |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 conquerors | det |
| 21 | conquerors | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 driving | obj |
| 22 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 conquered | advmod |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 conquered | advmod |
| 24 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 conquerors | acl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Ilgairig | three the nearest of that bulwarks advcl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sweep | past | Ilgairig not said here | o'er sunshaft's ruins | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drive | gerund | Ilgairig not said here | the conquerors | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme conqueror=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | conquer | participle | the conquerors not said here | now | late property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | ruin | sunshaft | nom ruin «state 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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