The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 96
Above those wondrous steeds That Great One glittered through the mist of morn, Splendour gloom-veiled.
Who acts: Great One, Splendour · What happens: glitter, veil, mist · To what, where: wondrous steeds, morn
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 (Great One, Splendour), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 4 steeds | case |
| 2 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 steeds | det |
| 3 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 steeds | amod |
| 4 | steeds | steed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 glittered | obl |
| 5 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 One | nsubj |
| 6 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 One | amod |
| 7 | One | One | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | nsubj |
| 8 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 mist | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mist | det |
| 11 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 glittered | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 morn | case |
| 13 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mist | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 veiled | punct |
| 15 | Splendour | Splendour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 veiled | nsubj |
| 16 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 veiled | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 gloom | punct |
| 18 | veiled | veil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 glittered | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 glittered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glitter | past | Great One That | that wondrous steeds | through the mist of morn | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above steed=Location | |||
| 2 | veil | participle | Splendour | gloom compound | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | mist | morn | nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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