The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 120
I played on breaths Above the horses’ steam: There used to be broken before me Great battles on every side:
Who acts: I · What happens: play, use, break · To what, where: breaths, Great battles
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 breaths | case |
| 4 | breaths | breath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 played | obl |
| 5 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 9 steam | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horses | det |
| 7 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 steam | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 7 horses | case |
| 9 | steam | steam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 played | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 used | punct |
| 11 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 used | expl |
| 12 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 played | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 broken | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 broken | aux:pass |
| 15 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 used | xcomp |
| 16 | before | before | ADP | _ | 19 battles | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 battles | nsubj |
| 18 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battles | amod |
| 19 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 broken | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 side | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 side | det |
| 22 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 battles | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 played | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | I | breaths | above the horses's steam | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | use | past | I not said here | there | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive · passive | I not said here | Great battles me on every side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: before battle=Location |
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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