The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 172
Unseen he drave; So slowly, clinging still to brake and rock, And oft re-settling, vanished from the land The insane mist.
Who acts: nostril, Unseen drave · What happens: drave, cling, break, vanish · To what, where: insane mist, land
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 (nostril, Unseen drave), 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 | Unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drave | amod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drave | nsubj |
| 3 | drave | drave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanished | nsubj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 clinging | punct |
| 5 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 slowly | advmod |
| 6 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 clinging | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 clinging | punct |
| 8 | clinging | cling | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 drave | conj |
| 9 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 clinging | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 brake | mark |
| 11 | brake | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 clinging | xcomp |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rock | cc |
| 13 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brake | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 re-settling | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 re-settling | cc |
| 16 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 re-settling | amod |
| 17 | re-settling | re-settling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drave | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanished | punct |
| 19 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 land | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 land | det |
| 22 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanished | obl |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 mist | det |
| 24 | insane | insane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mist | amod |
| 25 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanished | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | nostril | oft re-settling conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cling | gerund | nostril not said here | still | slowly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | break | to-infinitive | nostril not said here | rock conj | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | vanish | past | Unseen drave and oft re-settling | the insane mist | the land | tree rules |
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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