The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 112
That chariot stays not, turns not: on it comes, Like torrent shooting from a tall cliff’s brow, Level long time; then downward borne!’
Who acts: chariot · What happens: not stay, not turn, come, bear · To what, where: chariot
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 (chariot), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 chariot | det |
| 2 | chariot | chariot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stays | nsubj |
| 3 | stays | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 stays | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 turns | punct |
| 6 | turns | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stays | conj |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 turns | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 comes | punct |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 comes | obl |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stays | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shooting | punct |
| 13 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 15 shooting | case |
| 14 | torrent | torrent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 shooting | amod |
| 15 | shooting | shooting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 brow | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cliff | det |
| 18 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 cliff | amod |
| 19 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brow | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 cliff | case |
| 21 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shooting | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Level | punct |
| 23 | Level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shooting | conj |
| 24 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shooting | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 borne | punct |
| 27 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 borne | advmod |
| 28 | downward | downward | ADV | _ | 29 borne | advmod |
| 29 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 stays | conj |
| 30 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 29 borne | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 29 borne | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not stay | present | that chariot | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not turn | present | that chariot not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | present | chariot | like torrent shooting from a tall cliff's brow long time and Level | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Location | ||||
| 4 | bear | participle | that chariot not said here | then | downward property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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