The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 154
Then That mist storm-riven put forth once more its hand, And downward dragged its prey.
Who acts: That, mist storm riven · What happens: riven, put, drag · To what, where: hand, prey
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 (That, mist storm riven), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 riven | advmod |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 riven | nsubj |
| 3 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 riven | compound |
| 4 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 riven | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 storm | punct |
| 6 | riven | riven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dragged | nsubj |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 riven | acl |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 put | advmod |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 more | advmod |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 12 hand | advmod |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragged | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 dragged | cc |
| 15 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 16 dragged | advmod |
| 16 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 dragged | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | riven | That | then | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | put | participle | mist storm riven not said here | riven's hand | forth property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | drag | past | mist storm riven | riven's prey | downward property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prey=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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