The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 8
All day that battle raged While wood to wood thunder on thunder hurled, And all the bulls of Erin sent reply.
Who acts: day, bulls · What happens: rage, hurl, send · To what, where: wood, thunder, reply
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (day, bulls), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 raged | nsubj |
| 4 | battle | battle | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 raged | aux |
| 5 | raged | rage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 day | acl:relcl |
| 6 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 wood | mark |
| 7 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raged | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 thunder | case |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thunder | compound |
| 10 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raged | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 thunder | case |
| 12 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raged | obl |
| 13 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 thunder | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sent | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 bulls | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bulls | det |
| 18 | bulls | bull | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 sent | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Erin | case |
| 20 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 bulls | nmod |
| 21 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sent | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | present | all day | wood | thunder | to wood thunder | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on thunder=Location | ||
| 2 | hurl | participle | thunder not said here | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | send | past | all bulls of Erin | reply | day | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=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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