The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 88
Terribly it fixed On him alone its never-wandering eye; The dread Mor Reega,[31] she that from the skies O’er-rules the battle-fields, and sways at will This way or that the sable tides of death.
Who acts: Portent, death · What happens: fix, not wonder, sway, tide · To what, where: wandering eye, skies, way
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 (Portent, death), 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 | Terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 3 fixed | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fixed | nsubj |
| 3 | fixed | fix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fixed | obl |
| 6 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 fixed | advmod |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eye | nmod:poss |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 wandering | advmod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 never | punct |
| 10 | wandering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 eye | amod |
| 11 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Mor | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dread | det |
| 14 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Mor | compound |
| 15 | Mor | Mor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fixed | obl |
| 16 | Reega | Reega | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Mor | flat |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 31 | punct |
| 18 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 19 31 | punct |
| 19 | 31 | 31 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 15 Mor | nmod |
| 20 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 19 31 | punct |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 that | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 31 | parataxis |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 skies | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 skies | det |
| 25 | skies | sky | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fixed | obl |
| 26 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 rules | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 O’er | punct |
| 28 | rules | rule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 skies | nmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 fields | det |
| 30 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fields | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 battle | punct |
| 32 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 rules | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 sways | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sways | cc |
| 35 | sways | sway | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 fixed | conj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 way | case |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 way | aux |
| 38 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 way | det |
| 39 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sways | obl |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 tides | cc |
| 41 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 tides | mark |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 tides | det |
| 43 | sable | sable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 tides | amod |
| 44 | tides | tide | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 way | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 death | case |
| 46 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 tides | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fixed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fix | past | Portent | Portent's wandering eye | the skies O’er rules the battle fields | on strength; dread Mor 31 that Mor obl; alone, terribly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Product from sky=Material | ||
| 2 | not wonder speech: ask | gerund | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | sway | present | Portent not said here | this way or the sable tides of death | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at way=Location | ||||
| 4 | tide | death | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=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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