The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 105
That mist thou saw’st What is it but the tempest of their march, The dust flung upwards and the sweat exhaled And visible breath of warrior and of horse That breathes the northwind and the sunny glare?
Who acts: mist, dust, sweat, warrior · What happens: saw'st, be, fling, exhale, breathe · To what, where: mist, northwind
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mist, dust, sweat, warrior), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 mist | det |
| 2 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw’st | nsubj |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 saw’st | nsubj |
| 4 | saw’st | saw'st | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 saw’st | obj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 What | nsubj |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 tempest | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tempest | det |
| 10 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 What | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 march | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 march | nmod:poss |
| 13 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tempest | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 flung | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 dust | det |
| 16 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 flung | nsubj |
| 17 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw’st | conj |
| 18 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 17 flung | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 exhaled | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sweat | det |
| 21 | sweat | sweat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exhaled | nsubj |
| 22 | exhaled | exhale | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 flung | conj |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 breath | cc |
| 24 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 breath | amod |
| 25 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 exhaled | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 warrior | case |
| 27 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 breath | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 horse | cc |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 horse | case |
| 30 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 warrior | conj |
| 31 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 breathes | nsubj |
| 32 | breathes | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 warrior | acl:relcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 northwind | det |
| 34 | northwind | northwind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 breathes | obj |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 glare | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 glare | det |
| 37 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 glare | amod |
| 38 | glare | glare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 northwind | conj |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw’st | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | saw'st | past | that mist | thou nsubj; What the tempest of Knights's march obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | mist | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fling | past | the dust | upwards property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | exhale | past | the sweat | visible breath of warrior and horse conj | vn exhale-40.1.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | breathe | present | warrior and horse | the northwind and the sunny glare | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent northwind=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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