The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 144
From a burning couch She rose next eve; and, strong with fever’s strength, Paced swiftly by that sunset-crimsoned stream Which cut the camp in twain.
Who acts: clarion, crimsoned stream · What happens: burn, rise, pace, crimson, cut · To what, where: next eve, burning couch, camp, twain
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 (clarion, crimsoned stream), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 4 couch | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 couch | det |
| 3 | burning | burn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 couch | amod |
| 4 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 5 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rose | nsubj |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eve | amod |
| 8 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strong | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 strong | punct |
| 12 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rose | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 strength | case |
| 14 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 strength | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 fever | case |
| 16 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strong | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paced | punct |
| 18 | Paced | pace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 strong | conj |
| 19 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 18 Paced | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 stream | case |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 stream | det |
| 22 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 crimsoned | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sunset | punct |
| 24 | crimsoned | crimson | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 stream | amod |
| 25 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Paced | obl |
| 26 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 cut | nsubj |
| 27 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 stream | acl:relcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 camp | det |
| 29 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cut | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 twain | case |
| 31 | twain | twain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cut | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | rise | past | clarion | next eve | a burning couch | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient eve=Extent from couch=Initial_State | |||
| 3 | pace | participle | clarion not said here | by that crimsoned stream; swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by stream=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | crimson | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | cut | past | that crimsoned stream | the camp | twain | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset camp=Product |
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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