The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 22
First, from the southern stars there came a breeze On-wafting happy mist of moonlit rain; And when the sun ascended o’er the seas The ice was vanquished; and the watery plain And every cloud with rapture thrilled and stirred: And lo, at noon the cuckoo’s voice was heard!
Who acts: southern stars, breeze, sun · What happens: come, waft, ascend, vanquish, thrill, stir · To what, where: watery plain, happy mist, ice, cloud, noon, moonlit rain
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 (southern stars, breeze, sun), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 came | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 First | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 stars | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stars | det |
| 5 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stars | amod |
| 6 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 stars | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 breeze | det |
| 10 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 11 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 wafting | mark |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 On | punct |
| 13 | wafting | waft | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 breeze | acl |
| 14 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mist | amod |
| 15 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wafting | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 rain | case |
| 17 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rain | amod |
| 18 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mist | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 ascended | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 ascended | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 ascended | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 ascended | nsubj |
| 24 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 25 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 27 seas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 seas | det |
| 27 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 ascended | obl |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ice | det |
| 29 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 vanquished | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 vanquished | aux:pass |
| 31 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 seas | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 plain | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 plain | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 plain | det |
| 35 | watery | watery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 plain | amod |
| 36 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 cloud | cc |
| 38 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 39 cloud | det |
| 39 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 plain | conj |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 rapture | case |
| 41 | rapture | rapture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 cloud | nmod |
| 42 | thrilled | thrill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 cloud | acl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 stirred | cc |
| 44 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 thrilled | conj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 56 heard | punct |
| 46 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 heard | cc |
| 47 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 56 heard | discourse |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 noon | punct |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 50 noon | case |
| 50 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 heard | nsubj |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 cuckoo | det |
| 52 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 voice | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 52 cuckoo | case |
| 54 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 noon | nmod |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 heard | aux:pass |
| 56 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | conj |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the southern stars | the watery plain and every cloud with rapture | a breeze nsubj; first property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | waft | gerund | a breeze not said here | happy mist of moonlit rain | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mist=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ascend | participle | the sun | o'er the seas | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | vanquish | past · passive | the ice | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | thrill | participle | every cloud with rapture not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | stir | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | hear | past · passive | noon the cuckoo's voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | mist | moonlit rain | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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