The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 103
Terrible it comes, Four-peaked; and o’er those peaks a shadowy pall Pavilioning dim crypt and caves of death: I see it by the gleam of spears high held, The glare of circling Spirits.
Who acts: car, o’er, shadowy pall, I, spears · What happens: come, peak, pavilion, see, hold · To what, where: Four, shadowy pall, dim crypt, car
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 (car, o’er, shadowy pall, I), 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 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 comes | amod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 comes | nsubj |
| 3 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 peaked | punct |
| 5 | Four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 peaked | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Four | punct |
| 7 | peaked | peak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 comes | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 peaks | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 peaks | cc |
| 10 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peaks | nsubj |
| 11 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 peaks | nsubj |
| 12 | peaks | peak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 pall | det |
| 14 | shadowy | shadowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pall | amod |
| 15 | pall | pall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 peaks | obj |
| 16 | Pavilioning | pavilion | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 pall | acl |
| 17 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 crypt | amod |
| 18 | crypt | crypt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Pavilioning | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 caves | cc |
| 20 | caves | cave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 crypt | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 caves | nmod |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 comes | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 gleam | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 gleam | det |
| 29 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 spears | case |
| 31 | spears | spear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 gleam | nmod |
| 32 | high | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 held | advmod |
| 33 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 spears | acl:relcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 glare | punct |
| 35 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 glare | det |
| 36 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 gleam | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Spirits | case |
| 38 | circling | circling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Spirits | compound |
| 39 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 glare | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | car | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | peak | participle · passive | Four | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | peak | present | o’er | a shadowy pall | those nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pavilion | gerund | a shadowy pall not said here | dim crypt and caves of death | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | see | present | I | car | by the gleam of spears and the glare of circling Spirits | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | hold | past | spears not said here | high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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