The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 274
Meave, with a remnant small Reached Shenan’s bridgeless tide; and there had fallen Stretching to towered Ath-Luain helpless hands, Save that Cuchullain, ’mid the narrower way Standing with arms extended, terrible, Abashed that host pursuing; ‘Stand ye back!
Who acts: Meave, Standing, narrower way, host, Reached Shenan · What happens: fall, stretch, tower, mi, stand, extend · To what, where: towered Luain helpless hands, narrower way, host, ye
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 (Meave, Standing, narrower way, host), 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 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 mid | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meave | punct |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tide | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Shenan | det |
| 5 | remnant | remnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Reached | amod |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Reached | amod |
| 7 | Reached | Reached | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Shenan | compound |
| 8 | Shenan | Shenan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tide | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Shenan | case |
| 10 | bridgeless | bridgeless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tide | amod |
| 11 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meave | nmod |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 mid | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fallen | cc |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 fallen | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 fallen | aux |
| 16 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 mid | advcl |
| 17 | Stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 hands | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Stretching | fixed |
| 19 | towered | tower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 hands | amod |
| 20 | Ath | Ath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Luain | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 Ath | punct |
| 22 | Luain | Luain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 hands | compound |
| 23 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 hands | amod |
| 24 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fallen | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cuchullain | punct |
| 26 | Save | save | ADP | _ | 28 Cuchullain | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 Cuchullain | det |
| 28 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 fallen | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cuchullain | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cuchullain | punct |
| 31 | mid | mi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 way | det |
| 33 | narrower | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 way | amod |
| 34 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 mid | obj |
| 35 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 extended | csubj:pass |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 arms | case |
| 37 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 Standing | obl |
| 38 | extended | extend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 way | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 terrible | punct |
| 40 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 extended | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 Abashed | punct |
| 42 | Abashed | abash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 way | acl |
| 43 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 host | det |
| 44 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Abashed | obj |
| 45 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 44 host | acl |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 Stand | punct |
| 47 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 Stand | punct |
| 48 | Stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 mid | conj |
| 49 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 48 Stand | obj |
| 50 | back | back | ADV | _ | 48 Stand | advmod |
| 51 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 31 mid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | Meave with a Reached Shenan's bridgeless tide not said here | towered Luain helpless hands | there | that Cuchullain parataxis | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | stretch | gerund | Meave with a Reached Shenan's bridgeless tide not said here | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tower | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | mi | past | Meave with a Reached Shenan's bridgeless tide | the narrower way | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stand | gerund | with arms | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | extend | participle | Standing | the narrower way not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | abash | participle | the narrower way not said here | that host | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus host=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | pursue | gerund | that host not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | stand back | infinitive | Meave with a Reached Shenan's bridgeless tide not said here | ye | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ye=Stimulus | ||||
| 10 | tide | a Reached Shenan | nom tide «event intransitive»: 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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