The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 272
The bravest men and best Caught by its current on were dragged like trees The sport of winter flood.
Who acts: winter flood · What happens: catch, drag, sport · To what, where: bravest men
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 (winter flood), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 men | det |
| 2 | bravest | brave | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 Caught | cc |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 Caught | amod |
| 6 | Caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 men | conj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 current | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 current | nmod:poss |
| 9 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Caught | obl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 Caught | obl |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dragged | aux:pass |
| 12 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 trees | case |
| 14 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dragged | obl |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sport | det |
| 16 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 dragged | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 flood | case |
| 18 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flood | compound |
| 19 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sport | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | by flight's current | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | drag | past · passive | the bravest men | like trees; the sport of winter flood obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sport | winter flood | nom sport «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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