The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 161
With lifted spear She smote the brazen centre of her shield Three times; and thunder, triple-bolted, rolled Three times from sea to sea.
Who acts: Was · What happens: lift, smite, bolt, roll · To what, where: brazen centre, sea
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 (Was), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 spear | case |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 spear | amod |
| 3 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smote | obl |
| 4 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 smote | nsubj |
| 5 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 centre | det |
| 7 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 centre | amod |
| 8 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smote | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 shield | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 centre | nmod |
| 12 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 smote | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 thunder | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thunder | cc |
| 16 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 smote | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bolted | punct |
| 18 | triple | triple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bolted | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 triple | punct |
| 20 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 smote | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rolled | punct |
| 22 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 smote | parataxis |
| 23 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 times | nummod |
| 24 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rolled | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 sea | case |
| 26 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sea | case |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rolled | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 smote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | participle | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | smite | past | Was | the brazen centre of Was's shield | time | with lifted spear; thunder obl | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent centre=Patient with spear=Instrument | ||
| 3 | bolt | participle | Was not said here | triple compound | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | sea | time | to sea | vn slide-11.2-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from sea=Initial_Location to sea=Destination |
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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