The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 270
From the crests Of those twinned hills down rushed the total strength At last of Uladh.
Who acts: twinned hills · What happens: twin, rush · To what, where: total strength, crests
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 (twinned hills), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 crests | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crests | det |
| 3 | crests | crest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rushed | obl |
| 4 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 those | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 hills | det |
| 6 | twinned | twin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hills | amod |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 rushed | advmod |
| 9 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strength | det |
| 11 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 strength | amod |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rushed | obj |
| 13 | At | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strength | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Uladh | case |
| 16 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 last | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twin | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | rush | past | that twinned hills | the total strength | the crests | at last of Uladh; down property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent strength=Theme from crest=Initial_Location at last=Trajectory |
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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