The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 69
Far and wide All scaly shapes that buffet Erin’s waves From sprat and minnow up to shark and whale Beat up in finny squadrons.
Who acts: scaly shapes, Erin · What happens: buffet, beat up, wave · To what, where: waves, finny squadrons
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 (scaly shapes, Erin), 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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 Beat | advmod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 wide | cc |
| 3 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Far | conj |
| 4 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 shapes | det |
| 5 | scaly | scaly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 shapes | amod |
| 6 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Beat | nsubj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 buffet | nsubj |
| 8 | buffet | buffet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 shapes | acl:relcl |
| 9 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 waves | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Erin | case |
| 11 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 buffet | obj |
| 12 | From | from | ADP | _ | 13 sprat | case |
| 13 | sprat | sprat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buffet | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 minnow | cc |
| 15 | minnow | minnow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sprat | conj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 shark | case |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shark | mark |
| 18 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 buffet | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 whale | cc |
| 20 | whale | whale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shark | conj |
| 21 | Beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 Beat | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 squadrons | case |
| 24 | finny | finny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 squadrons | amod |
| 25 | squadrons | squadron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 Beat | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 Beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buffet | present | all scaly shapes | Erin's waves | from sprat and minnow; up shark and whale | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wave=Destination | |||
| 2 | beat up | present | all scaly shapes | finny squadrons | far property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in squadron=Location | |||
| 3 | wave | Erin | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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