The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 221
Birds saw he next White as a foam-wreath of their native sea, Spotting the glebe new turned.
Who acts: Birds, glebe · What happens: see, spot, turn · To what, where: car
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 (Birds, glebe), 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 | Birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 White | amod |
| 5 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 wreath | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wreath | det |
| 8 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wreath | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 foam | punct |
| 10 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sea | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sea | nmod:poss |
| 13 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sea | amod |
| 14 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wreath | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Spotting | punct |
| 16 | Spotting | spot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 saw | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 glebe | det |
| 18 | glebe | glebe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glebe | amod |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Spotting | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Birds | car | as a foam wreath of Birds's native sea; white property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus as wreath=Attribute | |||
| 2 | spot | gerund | Birds not said here | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | turn | participle | the glebe | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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