The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 97
From the trampled ford Went up a mist of spray that veiled that strife, Though pierced by demon cries, and flash beside Of demon swords.
Who acts: mist · What happens: trample, go up, veil, pierce, flash, mist · To what, where: trampled ford, strife, demon swords, spray
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 (mist), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 ford | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ford | det |
| 3 | trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ford | amod |
| 4 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Went | obl |
| 5 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 Went | compound:prt |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mist | det |
| 8 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 veiled | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 spray | case |
| 10 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mist | nmod |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 veiled | nsubj |
| 12 | veiled | veil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Went | parataxis |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 strife | det |
| 14 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 veiled | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pierced | punct |
| 16 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 pierced | mark |
| 17 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 veiled | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 cries | case |
| 19 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cries | compound |
| 20 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 pierced | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 flash | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 flash | cc |
| 23 | flash | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pierced | conj |
| 24 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 27 swords | case |
| 25 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 24 beside | fixed |
| 26 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 swords | compound |
| 27 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 flash | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trample | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | go up | past | the trampled ford | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | veil | past | a mist of spray | that strife | that nsubj | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent strife=Destination | |||
| 4 | pierce | participle | a mist of spray not said here | by demon cries | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | flash | infinitive | a mist of spray not said here | demon swords | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside sword=Location | ||||
| 6 | mist | spray | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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