The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 2
Obedient then, once more they soared on high; Next morn on Erin’s western coast descended, While sunrise flashed from misty isles far seen, Now gold, now flecked with streaks of luminous green.
Who acts: Obedient · What happens: soar, descend, flash, see, fleck · To what, where: high Next morn, western coast, sunrise, misty isles
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Obedient), 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 | Obedient | Obedient | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 soared | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 soared | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 then | punct |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 more | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 soared | advmod |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 soared | nsubj |
| 7 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 morn | case |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morn | amod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 11 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morn | amod |
| 12 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 soared | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 coast | case |
| 14 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 coast | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Erin | case |
| 16 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coast | amod |
| 17 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 morn | nmod |
| 18 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 coast | acl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 seen | punct |
| 20 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 27 seen | mark |
| 21 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sunrise | acl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 isles | case |
| 24 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 isles | amod |
| 25 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 flashed | obl |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 seen | advmod |
| 27 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 soared | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gold | punct |
| 29 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 gold | advmod |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 seen | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flecked | punct |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 flecked | advmod |
| 33 | flecked | fleck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 seen | conj |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 streaks | case |
| 35 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 flecked | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 green | case |
| 37 | luminous | luminous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 green | amod |
| 38 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 streaks | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | past | Obedient | high Next morn on Erin's western coast | then | they nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on morn=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | descend | participle | Erin's western coast not said here | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | flash | participle | sunrise not said here | misty isles | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | participle · passive | sunrise | gold obj; far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fleck | participle | now | with streaks of luminous green | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with streak=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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