The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 78
Dalríad fastnesses She burned with fire, and seized full many a herd On banks of Bann; then westward turned, and kenned The grass-green glitter soon of far Lough Foyle, And where the winding river-sea divides Fanad from Inishowen’s cliffs forlorn.
Who acts: Dalríad fastnesses, winding river sea · What happens: burn, seize, turn, ken, divide · To what, where: full many herd, banks, green glitter, Fanad
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 (Dalríad fastnesses, winding river sea), 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 | Dalríad | dalríad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fastnesses | amod |
| 2 | fastnesses | fastness | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 burned | nsubj |
| 3 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 burned | nsubj |
| 4 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 fire | case |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 burned | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seized | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 seized | cc |
| 9 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | conj |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 herd | amod |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 herd | amod |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 herd | det |
| 13 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seized | obj |
| 14 | On | on | ADP | _ | 15 banks | case |
| 15 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 seized | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Bann | case |
| 17 | Bann | Bann | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 banks | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 turned | punct |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 turned | advmod |
| 20 | westward | westward | ADV | _ | 21 turned | advmod |
| 21 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | parataxis |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 kenned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 kenned | cc |
| 24 | kenned | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 turned | conj |
| 25 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 glitter | det |
| 26 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 green | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 grass | punct |
| 28 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 glitter | amod |
| 29 | glitter | glitter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 kenned | obj |
| 30 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 Lough | advmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Lough | case |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 Lough | advmod |
| 33 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 kenned | obl |
| 34 | Foyle | Foyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Lough | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 divides | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 divides | cc |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 43 divides | advmod |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sea | det |
| 39 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sea | compound |
| 40 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sea | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 river | punct |
| 42 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 divides | nsubj |
| 43 | divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 burned | conj |
| 44 | Fanad | Fanad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 divides | obj |
| 45 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 cliffs | case |
| 46 | Inishowen | Inishowen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 cliffs | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 Inishowen | case |
| 48 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 divides | obl |
| 49 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 divides | xcomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 burned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | burn | past | Dalríad fastnesses | with fire; Meave nsubj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with fire=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | Dalríad fastnesses not said here | a full many herd | banks of Bann | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | |||
| 3 | turn | past | then | westward property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ken | past | the green glitter | of Lough | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | divide | present | the winding river sea | Fanad | from Inishowen's cliffs; forlorn property | vn separate-23.1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent fanad=Patient from cliff=Co-Patient |
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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