The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 65
Sudden there swooped to earth a raven black, And feasted on that blood.
What happens: swoop, feast · To what, where: earth
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. 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 | Sudden | sudden | ADV | _ | 3 swooped | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 swooped | advmod |
| 3 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 earth | mark |
| 5 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swooped | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 raven | det |
| 7 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 black | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 swooped | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 feasted | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 feasted | cc |
| 11 | feasted | feast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 swooped | conj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 blood | case |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 blood | det |
| 14 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 feasted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swooped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop | participle | earth | there | black a raven obl; sudden property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feast | participle | on that blood | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on blood=Patient |
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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