The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 84
With varying fortune long time raged the feud: Clan Usnach triumphed now: anon the foe: And oft, a swordless warrior mild of mood, Amid those Three was Deirdré seen: and lo!
Who acts: varying, Clan · What happens: vary, rage, triumph, see · To what, where: fortune, feud, anon, Three
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (varying, Clan), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 2 varying | mark |
| 2 | varying | vary | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 raged | csubj |
| 3 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 varying | obj |
| 4 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 time | amod |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 varying | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 feud | det |
| 8 | feud | feud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 raged | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 triumphed | punct |
| 10 | Clan | Clan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 triumphed | nsubj |
| 11 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Clan | flat |
| 12 | triumphed | triumph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 raged | conj |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 triumphed | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 anon | punct |
| 15 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 triumphed | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 foe | det |
| 17 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 anon | obj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 oft | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 oft | cc |
| 20 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 anon | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 warrior | punct |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 warrior | det |
| 23 | swordless | swordless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 warrior | amod |
| 24 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 oft | obl |
| 25 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 warrior | amod |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 mood | case |
| 27 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mild | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Amid | punct |
| 29 | Amid | Amid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 anon | conj |
| 30 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 Three | det |
| 31 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 seen | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 seen | aux:pass |
| 33 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 seen | nsubj |
| 34 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 triumphed | advcl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 lo | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lo | cc |
| 37 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 6 raged | discourse |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 raged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vary | gerund | fortune | time | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer fortune=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rage | past | varying | the feud | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location feud=Theme | ||||
| 3 | triumph | past | Clan | anon the foe and Amid | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | see | past · passive | that Three | Deirdré nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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