The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 159
One day’s march Eastward still marched she; then upon a hill, The first whose summit looked on Eman’s towers, Interred the all-beauteous one with Pagan dirge, And o’er her piled the cairn.
Who acts: march, first summit, summit · What happens: march, look, inter, pile · To what, where: Eastward, hill, beauteous one, cairn
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 (march, first summit, summit), 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 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 march | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 day | case |
| 4 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marched | nsubj |
| 5 | Eastward | Eastward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 march | appos |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 marched | advmod |
| 7 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 marched | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hill | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 hill | advmod |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 hill | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hill | det |
| 13 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 marched | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 looked | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 summit | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 summit | amod |
| 17 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 summit | nmod:poss |
| 18 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 looked | nsubj |
| 19 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hill | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 towers | case |
| 21 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 towers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Eman | case |
| 23 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 looked | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Interred | punct |
| 25 | Interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 hill | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 one | det |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 one | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 29 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 one | amod |
| 30 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Interred | obj |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 dirge | case |
| 32 | Pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 dirge | amod |
| 33 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | nmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 piled | punct |
| 35 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 piled | cc |
| 36 | o’er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 38 piled | mark |
| 37 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 piled | nsubj |
| 38 | piled | pile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 marched | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 cairn | det |
| 40 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 piled | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | past | One day's march | Eastward | a hill | still | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon hill=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | look | past | the first summit | on Eman's towers | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on tower=Theme | ||||
| 3 | inter | participle | One day's march not said here | the beauteous one | with Pagan dirge | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pile | past | summit | the cairn | vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cairn=Theme |
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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