The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 133
Keen-eyed as ocean bird That, high in sunshine poised, glimpses his prey Beneath the wave, and downward swooping slays him, Each watched the other’s movements, if an arm Lifted too high, or buckler dropp’d too low Left bare a rivet.
Who acts: downward swooping, Each, arm, buckler dropp · What happens: poise, glimpse, slay, watch, lift, have · To what, where: sunshine, prey, bird, movements, rivet
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 (downward swooping, Each, arm, buckler dropp), 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 | Keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyed | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Keen | punct |
| 3 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 bird | case |
| 5 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | compound |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eyed | obl |
| 7 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 eyed | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 high | punct |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 eyed | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sunshine | case |
| 11 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 high | obl |
| 12 | poised | poise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sunshine | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 glimpses | punct |
| 14 | glimpses | glimpse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 eyed | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 prey | nmod:poss |
| 16 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glimpses | obj |
| 17 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 19 wave | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wave | det |
| 19 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 glimpses | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slays | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 slays | cc |
| 22 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 swooping | amod |
| 23 | swooping | swooping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slays | nsubj |
| 24 | slays | slay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 glimpses | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 slays | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 watched | punct |
| 27 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 watched | nsubj |
| 28 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slays | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 other | det |
| 30 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 movements | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 other | case |
| 32 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 watched | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 Lifted | punct |
| 34 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 Lifted | mark |
| 35 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 arm | det |
| 36 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Lifted | nsubj |
| 37 | Lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 watched | conj |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 high | advmod |
| 39 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Lifted | xcomp |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 ’d | punct |
| 41 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 ’d | cc |
| 42 | buckler | buckler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 dropp | compound |
| 43 | dropp | dropp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 ’d | nsubj |
| 44 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 Lifted | conj |
| 45 | too | too | ADV | _ | 46 low | advmod |
| 46 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 Left | amod |
| 47 | Left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 bare | advcl |
| 48 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 ’d | ccomp |
| 49 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 50 rivet | det |
| 50 | rivet | rivet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 bare | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | poise | participle | sunshine not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | glimpse | present | bird's prey | beneath the wave | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | slay | present | downward swooping | bird | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | watch | past | Each | the other's movements | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lift a condition, not said to happen | participle | a arm | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | have | past | buckler dropp | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | leave | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | bear | infinitive | buckler dropp not said here | a rivet | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rivet=Patient |
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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