The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 12
In the West the sun Was sinking; in the East the moon uprose; While camped her host on Uta’s sacred plain Betwixt the double glories.
Who acts: sun, moon · What happens: sink, uprose, camp · To what, where: West, East, host, sacred plain
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 (sun, moon), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 West | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 West | det |
| 3 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sun | det |
| 5 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sinking | nsubj |
| 6 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinking | aux |
| 7 | sinking | sink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 uprose | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 East | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 East | det |
| 11 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 uprose | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moon | det |
| 13 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 uprose | nsubj |
| 14 | uprose | uprose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sinking | parataxis |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 camped | punct |
| 16 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 camped | mark |
| 17 | camped | camp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 uprose | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 host | nmod:poss |
| 19 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 camped | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 plain | case |
| 21 | Uta | Uta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 plain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Uta | case |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 plain | amod |
| 24 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 camped | obl |
| 25 | Betwixt | Betwixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 plain | appos |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 glories | det |
| 27 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 glories | amod |
| 28 | glories | glory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Betwixt | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sink | past · progressive | the sun | the West | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | uprose | past | the moon | the East | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | camp | past | the moon not said here | moon's host | Uta's sacred plain | vn odge-46-1 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme host=Location |
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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