The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 55
When dawned the third May morn The Four, while slowly rose the kindling mist Showing the first white on the earliest thorn, Heard music o’er the waters.
Who acts: kindling mist · What happens: dawn, rise, show, hear · To what, where: third morn, kindling mist, first white, earliest thorn
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 (kindling mist), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 dawned | advmod |
| 2 | dawned | dawn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 rose | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 morn | det |
| 4 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 morn | amod |
| 5 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 morn | nmod:unmarked |
| 6 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dawned | obj |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Four | det |
| 8 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 morn | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 rose | mark |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 12 rose | advmod |
| 12 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mist | det |
| 14 | kindling | kindling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mist | compound |
| 15 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rose | obj |
| 16 | Showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 mist | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 white | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 white | amod |
| 19 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Showing | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 thorn | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 thorn | det |
| 22 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 23 thorn | amod |
| 23 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Showing | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 music | punct |
| 25 | Heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 music | amod |
| 26 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 thorn | appos |
| 27 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 29 waters | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 waters | det |
| 29 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 music | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | participle | the third morn May the Four | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morn=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rise | past | the kindling mist | slowly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mist=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the kindling mist not said here | the first white | the earliest thorn | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent white=Recipient | |||
| 4 | hear | participle | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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