The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 169
The vernal day Panted with summer ardours, while aloft Noontide, a fire-tressed Fury, waved her torch, Kindling the lit grove and its youngling green From the azure-blazing zenith.
Who acts: vernal day · What happens: pant, tress, wave, kindle, blaze · To what, where: vernal day, torch, lit grove, blazing zenith
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 (vernal day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | vernal | vernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waved | nsubj |
| 4 | Panted | pant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 ardours | case |
| 6 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ardours | compound |
| 7 | ardours | ardour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Panted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Noontide | punct |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 Noontide | mark |
| 10 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Noontide | amod |
| 11 | Noontide | Noontide | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ardours | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Fury | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Fury | det |
| 14 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tressed | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fire | punct |
| 16 | tressed | tress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 Fury | amod |
| 17 | Fury | Fury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Noontide | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 19 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 torch | nmod:poss |
| 21 | torch | torch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 waved | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Kindling | punct |
| 23 | Kindling | kindle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 waved | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 grove | det |
| 25 | lit | lit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grove | amod |
| 26 | grove | grove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Kindling | obj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 green | cc |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 green | nmod:poss |
| 29 | youngling | youngling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 green | compound |
| 30 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 grove | conj |
| 31 | From | from | ADP | _ | 36 zenith | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 zenith | det |
| 33 | azure | azure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 blazing | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 azure | punct |
| 35 | blazing | blaze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 zenith | amod |
| 36 | zenith | zenith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Kindling | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | participle | the vernal day not said here | with summer ardours aloft Noontide and a tressed Fury | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | tress | participle | fire compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wave | past | the vernal day | noontide's torch | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent torch=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kindle | gerund | the vernal day not said here | the lit grove and Fury's youngling green | the blazing zenith | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grove=Product from zenith=Material | |||
| 5 | blaze | gerund | azure compound | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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