The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 76
Close as bark to tree The azure robe clung to that virgin form Sinewy and long, and reached the shining feet.
Who acts: azure robe · What happens: cling, form, reach, shine · To what, where: azure robe, shining feet
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 (azure robe), 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 | Close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bark | case |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 1 Close | fixed |
| 3 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 form | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bark | nmod |
| 6 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 robe | det |
| 7 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 robe | compound |
| 8 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 form | nsubj |
| 9 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 robe | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 virgin | case |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 virgin | det |
| 12 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clung | obl |
| 13 | form | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Sinewy | sinewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 form | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 long | cc |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Sinewy | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 reached | cc |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 form | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 feet | det |
| 21 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 feet | amod |
| 22 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reached | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cling | participle | the azure robe not said here | to that virgin | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to virgin=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | form | present | the azure robe | close bark to tree; sinewy property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | the azure robe not said here | the shining feet | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP 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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