The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 149
Instant, felt ere heard, Vibration strange troubled the moonlit air; A long-drawn hiss o’er-ran it: then a cry, Death-cry of warrior wounded to the death.
Who acts: Vibration, drawn hiss o’er, warrior · What happens: hear, trouble, draw, run, wound, cry · To what, where: Instant, moonlit air, air, Death cry · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Vibration, drawn hiss o’er, warrior), 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 | Instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Instant | punct |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | aux |
| 4 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 5 heard | advmod |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
| 7 | Vibration | Vibration | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | nsubj |
| 8 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Vibration | amod |
| 9 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 11 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 troubled | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 o’er | det |
| 15 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drawn | amod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 long | punct |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 o’er | amod |
| 18 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 o’er | compound |
| 19 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 o’er | punct |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 heard | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 ran | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 cry | punct |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 cry | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 cry | det |
| 26 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 cry | punct |
| 28 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cry | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Death | punct |
| 30 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 cry | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 warrior | case |
| 32 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cry | nmod |
| 33 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 cry | acl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 death | det |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wounded | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Instant | a cry and Death cry of warrior obl; ere property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | trouble | past | Vibration | the moonlit air | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus air=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | draw | participle | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | run | past | a drawn hiss o’er | air | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | wound | participle | Death cry of warrior not said here | to the death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | cry | warrior | nom cry «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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