The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 159
Ere that cry Had left its last vibration on the air High up the Battle-Goddess, adamant-mailed, Was drifting over Uladh.
Who acts: Ere cry, Was, cry · What happens: leave, mail, drift, vibrate · To what, where: last vibration, air, Uladh
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 (Ere cry, Was, cry), 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 | Ere | Ere | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cry | compound |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 cry | det |
| 3 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | nsubj |
| 4 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 left | aux |
| 5 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 vibration | nmod:poss |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 vibration | amod |
| 8 | vibration | vibration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 air | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 air | det |
| 11 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 12 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 left | advmod |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 17 Goddess | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Goddess | det |
| 15 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Goddess | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Battle | punct |
| 17 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 left | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 mailed | punct |
| 19 | adamant | adamant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mailed | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 adamant | punct |
| 21 | mailed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 left | conj | |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 drifting | punct |
| 23 | Was | Was | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 drifting | nsubj |
| 24 | drifting | drift | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 mailed | advcl |
| 25 | over | over | ADP | _ | 26 Uladh | case |
| 26 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 drifting | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · perfect | that Ere cry | cry's last vibration | the air | up the Battle Goddess; high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent vibration=Theme on air=Location | ||
| 2 | participle | that Ere cry not said here | adamant compound | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | drift | gerund | Was | Uladh | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over uladh=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | vibrate | cry | nom vibration «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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