The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 111
Endless morn Before him fleeting over seas and lands, With shaft retorted lights his chariot-beam.
Who acts: morn · What happens: fleet, retort, beam · To what, where: Endless morn, seas, retorted lights
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 (morn), 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 | Endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morn | amod |
| 2 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lights | nsubj |
| 3 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 5 fleeting | mark |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fleeting | nsubj |
| 5 | fleeting | fleet | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 morn | acl |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 seas | case |
| 7 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fleeting | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lands | cc |
| 9 | lands | land | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seas | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 shaft | punct |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 12 shaft | case |
| 12 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morn | conj |
| 13 | retorted | retort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 lights | amod |
| 14 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 beam | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beam | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 chariot | punct |
| 18 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lights | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 lights | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fleet | gerund | morn | Endless morn and shaft not said here | seas and lands | tree rules | |||
| 2 | retort speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | beam | morn | nom beam «communication 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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