The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 94
The sun arose And smote the forest roof dew-saturate As onward dashed through woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain’s war-car.
Who acts: sun, forest roof · What happens: arise, smite, saturate, dash · To what, where: woodlands
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 (sun, forest roof), 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 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arose | nsubj |
| 3 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 smote | cc |
| 5 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arose | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 roof | det |
| 7 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 roof | compound |
| 8 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saturate | nsubj |
| 9 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 saturate | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 dew | punct |
| 11 | saturate | saturate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 smote | ccomp |
| 12 | As | as | ADV | _ | 13 onward | advmod |
| 13 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 11 saturate | advmod |
| 14 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 saturate | xcomp |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 woodlands | case |
| 16 | woodlands | woodland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dashed | obl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 car | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Cuchullain | det |
| 19 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Cuchullain | compound |
| 20 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 car | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Cuchullain | case |
| 22 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 car | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 war | punct |
| 24 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 woodlands | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arise | past | the sun | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | smite | past | the sun not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | saturate | infinitive | the forest roof | dew compound; onward property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | dash | participle | the forest roof not said here | woodlands to the Ford Cuchullain's war car | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through woodland=Trajectory |
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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