The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 163
The first Who woke was Leagh, Cuchullain’s charioteer: Forth from the opprobrious mist he passed like ship That cleaves the limit of some low marsh-fog And sweeps into main ocean.
Who acts: first, Leagh, That · What happens: wake, be, pass, cleave, sweep · To what, where: Leagh, opprobrious mist, limit, main ocean
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 (first, Leagh, That), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 woke | nsubj |
| 4 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Leagh | cop |
| 6 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 woke | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 charioteer | punct |
| 8 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 charioteer | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Cuchullain | case |
| 10 | charioteer | charioteer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Leagh | appos |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 passed | punct |
| 12 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 passed | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 mist | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 mist | det |
| 15 | opprobrious | opprobrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mist | amod |
| 16 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passed | nsubj |
| 18 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 woke | conj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 ship | case |
| 20 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 passed | obl |
| 21 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 cleaves | nsubj |
| 22 | cleaves | cleave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passed | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 limit | det |
| 24 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cleaves | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 fog | case |
| 26 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 fog | nsubj |
| 27 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 fog | amod |
| 28 | marsh | marsh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fog | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 marsh | punct |
| 30 | fog | fog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 limit | nmod |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sweeps | cc |
| 32 | sweeps | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 cleaves | conj |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 35 ocean | case |
| 34 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 ocean | amod |
| 35 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sweeps | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | the first | Who nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | Leagh | Cuchullain's charioteer appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | Leagh | the opprobrious mist | like ship; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from mist=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | cleave | present | That | the limit of low marsh fog | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limit=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sweep | present | That not said here | main ocean | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into ocean=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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