The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 100
Then--sped from heaven--above the heads of all Ran Fear; and reached King Conor’s council-hall.
What happens: speed, reach · To what, where: heaven, council hall
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sped | advmod |
| 2 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 3 sped | punct |
| 3 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 heaven | case |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sped | obl |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 heads | punct |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 heads | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heads | det |
| 9 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sped | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Fear | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 Fear | det |
| 12 | Ran | Ran | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fear | compound |
| 13 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heads | nmod |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sped | conj |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Conor | compound |
| 18 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 hall | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Conor | case |
| 20 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hall | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 council | punct |
| 22 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | participle | heaven | then | above the heads of all Ran Fear | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from heaven=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | reach | past | King Conor's council hall | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hall=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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