The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 32
High up, o’er each Glittered upon the wall his blazoned shield.
What happens: glitter, blazon · To what, where: o’er
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 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 up | advmod |
| 2 | up | up | ADV | _ | 6 Glittered | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 up | punct |
| 4 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Glittered | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 Glittered | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | Glittered | glitter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Glittered | obl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shield | nmod:poss |
| 11 | blazoned | blazon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 shield | amod |
| 12 | shield | shield | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Glittered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | participle · passive | o’er | upon the wall; Prince's blazoned shield obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blazon | participle | tree rules |
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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