The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 108
What thy peaks Crowning that mist, but Uladh’s hills remote That send her children to avenge her wrong?
Who acts: peaks · What happens: crown, send, avenge · To what, where: mist, hills remote, Uladh, wrong, peaks
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 (peaks), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 peaks | nsubj |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 peaks | nmod:poss |
| 3 | peaks | peak | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | Crowning | crown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 peaks | acl |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 mist | det |
| 6 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Crowning | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 send | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 send | cc |
| 9 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hills | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Uladh | case |
| 11 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 remote | compound |
| 12 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 send | obj |
| 13 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 send | nsubj |
| 14 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 peaks | acl:relcl |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 send | iobj |
| 16 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 send | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 avenge | mark |
| 18 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 send | advcl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wrong | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 avenge | obj |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 peaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crown | gerund | thy peaks not said here | that mist | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mist=Theme | ||||
| 2 | send | present | thy peaks | hills remote | Uladh | children obj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | avenge | to-infinitive | thy peaks not said here | Uladh's wrong | 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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