The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 134
A cloud of raven black, Its veil for half that night, had drifted by, And o’er that distant gleam, her mother’s camp, Slowly the moon descended.
Who acts: o’er · What happens: drift by, descend, cloud · To what, where: cloud, raven
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 (o’er), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cloud | det |
| 2 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 raven | case |
| 4 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloud | nmod |
| 5 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 raven | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 veil | punct |
| 7 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 veil | nmod:poss |
| 8 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cloud | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 night | case |
| 10 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 12 night | det:predet |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 night | det |
| 12 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 veil | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 cloud | punct |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 drifted | aux |
| 15 | drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 drifted | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 o’er | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 o’er | cc |
| 19 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 drifted | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 descended | nsubj |
| 21 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 gleam | amod |
| 22 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 descended | nsubj:outer |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 camp | punct |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 mother | nmod:poss |
| 25 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 camp | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 mother | case |
| 27 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gleam | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 descended | punct |
| 29 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 32 descended | advmod |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 moon | det |
| 31 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 descended | nsubj |
| 32 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 o’er | acl:relcl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift by | past · perfect · passive | a cloud of raven and cloud's veil for half night | o’er obl | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent | ||||
| 2 | descend | past | o’er | distant gleam nsubj:outer; the moon nsubj; slowly property | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cloud | raven | nom cloud «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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