The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 117
One evening through the sunset mist A camp, high-seated on a bosky hill, Shone out, fire-fringed: aloof it stood as one That halts ’twixt war and peace.
Who acts: camp · What happens: seat, shine out, fringe, stand, halt · To what, where: camp, bosky hill, One evening, ’
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (camp), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Shone | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 mist | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 mist | det |
| 5 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mist | compound |
| 6 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 evening | nmod |
| 7 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Shone | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seated | punct |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 seated | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 high | punct |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 camp | acl:relcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hill | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hill | det |
| 15 | bosky | bosky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hill | amod |
| 16 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shone | punct |
| 18 | Shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 Shone | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fringed | punct |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fringed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 fire | punct |
| 23 | fringed | fringe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 Shone | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 aloof | punct |
| 25 | aloof | aloof | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Shone | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 stood | nsubj |
| 27 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 aloof | acl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 29 one | case |
| 29 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 stood | obl |
| 30 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 31 halts | nsubj |
| 31 | halts | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 one | acl:relcl |
| 32 | ’ | ' | X | _ | 31 halts | obj |
| 33 | twixt | twixt | X | _ | 32 ’ | goeswith |
| 34 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 ’ | flat |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 peace | cc |
| 36 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 war | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 Shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | participle | a camp not said here | a bosky hill | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | shine out | participle · passive | One evening through the sunset mist | a camp nsubj:pass | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fringe | participle | fire compound | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | stand | past | camp | as one | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | halt | present | ’ | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector '=Eventuality |
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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