The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 28
Liath, the lake’s white son, Tossed high his head in anger.
Who acts: white son · What happens: toss · To what, where: high head, anger, white son
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 (white son), 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 | Liath | Liath | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 lake | det |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 lake | case |
| 6 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 son | amod |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tossed | punct |
| 9 | Tossed | toss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 son | acl |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 head | amod |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tossed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 anger | case |
| 14 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Tossed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | toss | participle | the lake's white son Liath not said here | Ferdīa's high head | anger | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme in anger=Destination |
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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