The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 99
Eve grew dim When lo! a chariot from the woods emerged In swift pursuit: an old man urged the steeds, A grey old man that chattered evermore With blinking eyes that ceased not from amaze.
Who acts: Eve, chariot, old man, grey old man, eyes · What happens: grow, emerge, urge, chatter, blink, not cease · To what, where: swift pursuit, steeds, eyes, amaze
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 (Eve, chariot, old man, grey old man), 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 | Eve | Eve | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 grew | nsubj |
| 2 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 grew | xcomp |
| 4 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 emerged | advmod |
| 5 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 12 emerged | discourse |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lo | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 chariot | det |
| 8 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 emerged | nsubj |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 woods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woods | det |
| 11 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 chariot | nmod |
| 12 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | advcl |
| 13 | In | in | ADP | _ | 15 pursuit | case |
| 14 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pursuit | amod |
| 15 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 emerged | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 urged | punct |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 urged | nsubj |
| 20 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grew | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 steeds | det |
| 22 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 urged | iobj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 man | punct |
| 24 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 man | det |
| 25 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 man | amod |
| 27 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 steeds | appos |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 chattered | nsubj |
| 29 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 man | acl:relcl |
| 30 | evermore | evermore | ADV | _ | 29 chattered | advmod |
| 31 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 32 blinking | mark |
| 32 | blinking | blink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 chattered | advcl |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 blinking | obj |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 ceased | nsubj |
| 35 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 eyes | acl:relcl |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 ceased | advmod |
| 37 | from | from | ADP | _ | 38 amaze | case |
| 38 | amaze | amaze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ceased | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | Eve | dim property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | emerge | past | a chariot from the woods | swift pursuit | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pursuit=Location | ||||
| 3 | urge | past | a old man | the steeds | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent steed=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | chatter | past | a grey old man | evermore property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | blink | gerund | a grey old man not said here | eyes | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not cease | past | eyes | amaze | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality amaze=Eventuality |
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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