The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 146
Vanished the moon in cloud: Then shone the watch-fires on the northern hills Like stars.
What happens: vanish, shine · To what, where: moon, cloud, watch fires, northern hills
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: 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 | Vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vanished | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 cloud | case |
| 5 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Vanished | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 shone | punct |
| 7 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 shone | advmod |
| 8 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Vanished | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fires | det |
| 10 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fires | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 watch | punct |
| 12 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 shone | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 hills | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hills | det |
| 15 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hills | amod |
| 16 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 fires | nmod |
| 17 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 18 stars | case |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 hills | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the moon | cloud | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shine | past | the watch fires | the northern hills like stars | then | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fire=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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