The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 73
Shapely was that head Bent o’er her web, while back the sun-like hair Streamed on the wind.
What happens: be, stream · To what, where: head, like hair, wind, Shapely
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: 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 | Shapely | Shapely | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 head | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 head | mark |
| 4 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shapely | appos |
| 5 | Bent | Bent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 head | appos |
| 6 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 8 web | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 web | nmod:poss |
| 8 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hair | punct |
| 10 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 hair | mark |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 16 hair | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hair | det |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 like | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sun | punct |
| 15 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hair | amod |
| 16 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 head | conj |
| 17 | Streamed | stream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hair | acl |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 wind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 wind | det |
| 20 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Streamed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Shapely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | head and the like hair | o'er Eclipse's web; Bent appos; the like hair conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stream | participle | the like hair not said here | the wind | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on wind=Location |
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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