The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 110
Yea, and o’er that head Victory and empire, like two eagles paired Sail onward, tempest-pinioned.
Who acts: that, two eagles · What happens: victory, pair, pinion · To what, where: Sail, o’er
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 (that, two eagles), 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 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 4 o’er | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yea | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 o’er | cc |
| 4 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 Victory | nsubj |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Victory | compound |
| 7 | Victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 o’er | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 empire | cc |
| 9 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Victory | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 eagles | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 eagles | case |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 eagles | nummod |
| 13 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Victory | nmod |
| 14 | paired | pair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eagles | acl |
| 15 | Sail | Sail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 paired | obj |
| 16 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 14 paired | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pinioned | punct |
| 18 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pinioned | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 tempest | punct |
| 20 | pinioned | pinion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 eagles | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 o’er | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | victory | that | like two eagles; empire conj | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pair | participle | two eagles not said here | Sail | onward property | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sail=Patient | |||
| 3 | pinion | participle | that not said here | tempest compound | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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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