The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 156
Fergus, at last Forth launched upon his native element, Raced o’er the battle billows like a bark When tempests stretch its canvass.
Who acts: Fergus, tempests, tempest · What happens: launch, race, stretch, canvass · To what, where: native element, canvass
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 (Fergus, tempests, tempest), 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 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fergus | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Forth | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Forth | amod |
| 5 | Forth | Forth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Fergus | nmod |
| 6 | launched | launch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 element | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 element | nmod:poss |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 element | amod |
| 10 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Raced | punct |
| 12 | Raced | race | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 element | acl |
| 13 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 16 billows | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 billows | det |
| 15 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 billows | compound |
| 16 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Raced | obl |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 bark | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bark | det |
| 19 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 billows | nmod |
| 20 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 22 stretch | mark |
| 21 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 stretch | nsubj |
| 22 | stretch | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Raced | advcl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 canvass | nmod:poss |
| 24 | canvass | canvass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stretch | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | past | Fergus at last Forth | Forth's native element | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent upon element=Destination | ||||
| 2 | race | participle | Forth's native element not said here | o'er the battle billows like a bark | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stretch | present | tempests | tempest's canvass | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent canvass=Patient | ||||
| 4 | canvass | tempest | nom canvass «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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