The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 70
Forty years With deepening rage they fought, till round the isle Main ocean boiled, and from her ships black-ribbed Melted the tar, and mist was over all.
Who acts: shapes, mist · What happens: deepen, fight, boil, rib, melt, be · To what, where: ships, isle Main ocean, tar
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 (shapes, mist), 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 | Forty | forty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 years | nummod |
| 2 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fought | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | With | with | ADP | _ | 5 rage | case |
| 4 | deepening | deepen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 rage | amod |
| 5 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fought | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fought | nsubj |
| 7 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 ocean | punct |
| 9 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 14 ocean | mark |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 ocean | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 ocean | det |
| 12 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ocean | compound |
| 13 | Main | Main | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 ocean | compound |
| 14 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fought | obl |
| 15 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 ocean | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ships | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ships | cc |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 ships | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 ships | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fought | obl |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ribbed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 black | punct |
| 23 | ribbed | rib | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 ships | acl |
| 24 | Melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 ribbed | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 tar | det |
| 26 | tar | tar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Melted | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 over | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 over | cc |
| 29 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 over | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 over | cop |
| 31 | over | over | ADV | _ | 20 ships | advmod |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 over | fixed |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deepen | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | fight | past | shapes = shape | whale's ships | year | with deepening rage; round the isle Main ocean | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with rage=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | boil | participle | the isle Main ocean not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | rib | participle | whale's ships not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | melt | participle | the tar | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient tar=Result | |||||
| 6 | is | past | mist | over property | tree rules |
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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