The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 156
Through the high-roofed woods They saw him distant like a falling star Kindling the air with speed.
Who acts: woods, falling star · What happens: roof, see, fall, kindle · To what, where: Conlinglas, roofed woods, air
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 (woods, falling star), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 6 woods | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 woods | det |
| 3 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 roofed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 high | punct |
| 5 | roofed | roof | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 woods | amod |
| 6 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obl |
| 7 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 saw | obj |
| 10 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 star | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 star | det |
| 13 | falling | fall | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 star | amod |
| 14 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 distant | obl |
| 15 | Kindling | kindle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 star | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 air | det |
| 17 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Kindling | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 speed | case |
| 19 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Kindling | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roof | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | see | past | woods = wood | Conlinglas | the roofed woods | distant property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | fall | gerund | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | kindle | gerund | a falling star not said here | the air | with speed | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with speed=Instrument |
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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