The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 195
‘“She spake and passed: Trembled the place like cliffs o’er ocean caves: Like thunder underground I heard her wheels In echoes slowly dying.”
Who acts: Macha, Conor · What happens: pass, tremble, hear, die · To what, where: place, Macha, echoes
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 (Macha, Conor), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 3 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 She | flat |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Trembled | punct |
| 8 | Trembled | tremble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 passed | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Trembled | obj |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 12 cliffs | case |
| 12 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 place | nmod |
| 13 | o’er | o' | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 caves | amod |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 caves | compound |
| 15 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 cliffs | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 heard | punct |
| 17 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 18 thunder | case |
| 18 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 heard | obl |
| 19 | underground | underground | ADV | _ | 18 thunder | advmod |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | nsubj |
| 21 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 heard | obj |
| 23 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | obj |
| 24 | In | in | ADP | _ | 25 echoes | case |
| 25 | echoes | echo | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heard | obl |
| 26 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 27 dying | advmod |
| 27 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 heard | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass in a quote | past | Macha | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tremble in a quote | participle | Macha not said here | the place | like cliffs and o’er ocean caves | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location place=Theme | |||
| 3 | hear in a quote | past | Conor | Macha | echoes | like thunder; wheels obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | die in a quote | gerund | Conor not said here | slowly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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