The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 101
Dreadful are his wheels; Dreadful as breaker arched, when on its crest Stands Fear, and Fate upon the rock-strewn shore: But not sea-rocks they crush, those brazen wheels, But realms, and peoples, and the necks of men.
Who acts: wheels, breaker · What happens: be, arch, crush, fear · To what, where: Dreadful wheels, breaker, sea rocks
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheels, breaker), 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 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wheels | amod |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wheels | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rocks | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 Dreadful | punct |
| 6 | Dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wheels | amod |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 breaker | case |
| 8 | breaker | breaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dreadful | obl |
| 9 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 breaker | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Fear | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 Fear | advmod |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Fear | case |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Fear | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Stands | compound |
| 15 | Stands | stand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 Fear | compound |
| 16 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Dreadful | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Fate | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Fate | cc |
| 19 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Fear | appos |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 shore | det |
| 22 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strewn | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 rock | punct |
| 24 | strewn | strewn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 shore | amod |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Fate | nmod |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 31 rocks | punct |
| 27 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 rocks | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 rocks | advmod |
| 29 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rocks | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 sea | punct |
| 31 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 crush | nsubj |
| 33 | crush | crush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 wheels | punct |
| 35 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 37 wheels | det |
| 36 | brazen | brazen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 wheels | amod |
| 37 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rocks | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 realms | punct |
| 39 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 realms | cc |
| 40 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rocks | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 peoples | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 peoples | cc |
| 43 | peoples | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rocks | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 necks | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 necks | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 necks | det |
| 47 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 rocks | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 men | case |
| 49 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 necks | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 rocks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Perforce's Dreadful wheels | Perforce nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | arch | participle | breaker not said here | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | crush | present | wheels = wheel | sea rocks and that brazen wheels but realms and peoples and the necks of men not said here | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Patient | ||||
| 5 | fear | breaker | nom fear «feeling transitive»: poss=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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