The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

There fell a silence strange: Slowly that mist dispersed; and on the sands That false Enchanter lay with all his sons Black, bleeding bulks of death.

Who acts: sands · What happens: fall, disperse, lay, bleed · To what, where: silence, mist, bulks

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sands), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 fell	expl
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 silence	det
4	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obj
5	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct
7	Slowly	slowly	ADV	_	2 fell	advmod
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 mist	det
9	mist	mist	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obj
10	dispersed	disperse	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 mist	acl
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lay	cc
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 sands	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sands	det
15	sands	sand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lay	nsubj
16	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 Enchanter	nsubj
17	false	false	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 Enchanter	amod
18	Enchanter	Enchanter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sands	nmod
19	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 fell	parataxis
20	with	with	ADP	_	23 sons	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sons	det:predet
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 sons	nmod:poss
23	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lay	obl
24	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 lay	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bleeding	punct
26	bleeding	bleed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 lay	advcl
27	bulks	bulk	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 bleeding	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 death	case
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bulks	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past		a silence	there	that mist obj; slowly, strange property	tree rules
2	disperse	participle		that mist not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	lay	present	the sands false Enchanter That			with mist's sons	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	bleed	gerund	the sands false Enchanter That not said here	bulks of death			vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bulk=Source

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/100/

🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 100

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 100