The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 4
There once--what time a great sun in decline Had changed to gold the green back of a wave That showered a pasture fair with diamond brine, Then sank, anon uprising from its grave Went shouldering onward, higher and more high, And hid far lands, and half eclipsed the sky--
Who acts: great sun, wave, anon uprising, half · What happens: change, gold, shower, sink, go, shoulder · To what, where: green back, pasture, far lands, sky
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 (great sun, wave, anon uprising, half), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 changed | expl |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 changed | advmod |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
| 4 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 changed | nsubj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 decline | case |
| 10 | decline | decline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sun | nmod |
| 11 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | aux |
| 12 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 gold | case |
| 14 | gold | gold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 changed | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 back | det |
| 16 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 back | amod |
| 17 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gold | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wave | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wave | det |
| 20 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 back | nmod |
| 21 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 showered | nsubj |
| 22 | showered | shower | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wave | acl:relcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 pasture | det |
| 24 | pasture | pasture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 showered | obj |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pasture | amod |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 brine | case |
| 27 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 brine | compound |
| 28 | brine | brine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fair | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sank | punct |
| 30 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 sank | advmod |
| 31 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 uprising | punct |
| 33 | anon | anon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 uprising | compound |
| 34 | uprising | uprising | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Went | nsubj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 37 grave | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 grave | nmod:poss |
| 37 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 uprising | nmod |
| 38 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sank | ccomp |
| 39 | shouldering | shoulder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 Went | xcomp |
| 40 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 39 shouldering | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 higher | punct |
| 42 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 shouldering | advmod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 high | cc |
| 44 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 45 high | advmod |
| 45 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 higher | conj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 hid | punct |
| 47 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 hid | cc |
| 48 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sank | conj |
| 49 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 lands | amod |
| 50 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 hid | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 eclipsed | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 eclipsed | cc |
| 53 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 54 eclipsed | nsubj |
| 54 | eclipsed | eclipse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 changed | conj |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 sky | det |
| 56 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 eclipsed | obj |
| 57 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 12 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · perfect | a great sun in decline | there | time | once property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | gold | infinitive | a great sun in decline not said here | the green back of a wave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | shower | past | a wave | a pasture | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pasture=Patient | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | a great sun in decline not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | past | anon uprising from sun's grave | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | shoulder | gerund | anon uprising from sun's grave not said here | onward property | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | hide | past | a great sun in decline not said here | far lands | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | ||||
| 8 | eclipse | past | half | the sky | tree rules |
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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