The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 255
Ere long was reached The second rampart.
What happens: reach · To what, where: second rampart
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: 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 reached | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 reached | aux:pass |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 rampart | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 rampart | amod |
| 7 | rampart | rampart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · passive | the second rampart | long property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: rampart=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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