The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 24
Likewise a beam auroral forth he sped That flushed that tent aerial like a rose Each morn, and roseate odours o’er it shed The long day through.
Who acts: beam auroral, That, roseate odours · What happens: speed, flush, shed · To what, where: tent aerial
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 (beam auroral, That, roseate odours), 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 | Likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 7 sped | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 auroral | det |
| 3 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 auroral | compound |
| 4 | auroral | auroral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sped | nsubj |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 sped | advmod |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sped | nsubj |
| 7 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 flushed | nsubj |
| 9 | flushed | flush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sped | conj |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 aerial | det |
| 11 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aerial | compound |
| 12 | aerial | aerial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flushed | obj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 15 rose | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rose | det |
| 15 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 aerial | nmod |
| 16 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 morn | det |
| 17 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rose | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 shed | cc |
| 20 | roseate | roseate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 odours | amod |
| 21 | odours | odour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shed | nsubj |
| 22 | o’er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 24 shed | mark |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 shed | nsubj |
| 24 | shed | shed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sped | conj |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 day | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 day | amod |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shed | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | through | through | ADV | _ | 24 shed | advmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | a beam auroral | auroral nsubj; forth, likewise property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | flush | past | That | that tent aerial | like a rose and each morn | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent aerial=Source | |||
| 3 | shed | past | roseate odours | day | aerial nsubj; through property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source |
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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