The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 190
The shield, The iron plate beneath, the stone within it, Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof Burst.
To what, where: shield
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: 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 | 2 shield | det |
| 2 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 plate | punct |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plate | det |
| 5 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plate | compound |
| 6 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | conj |
| 7 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 6 plate | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stone | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shield | conj |
| 11 | within | within | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 stone | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 films | punct |
| 14 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 18 films | case |
| 15 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 films | amod |
| 16 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 films | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 ice | punct |
| 18 | films | film | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 shield | conj |
| 19 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 18 films | case |
| 20 | neath | neath | ADP | _ | 25 Burst | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 courser | det |
| 22 | courser | courser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hoof | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 courser | case |
| 24 | hoof | hoof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Burst | nmod:desc |
| 25 | Burst | Burst | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 films | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 shield | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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