The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 198
High o’er head A dulcet strain, unutterably sad, When ceased that phantom rush of fugitive feet, Drifted far northward.
What happens: cease, drift, rush · To what, where: phantom rush, dulcet strain, fugitive feet
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 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 head | amod |
| 2 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 head | compound |
| 3 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 strain | nsubj |
| 4 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 strain | det |
| 5 | dulcet | dulcet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strain | amod |
| 6 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sad | punct |
| 8 | unutterably | unutterably | ADV | _ | 9 sad | advmod |
| 9 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strain | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ceased | punct |
| 11 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ceased | advmod |
| 12 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strain | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 rush | det |
| 14 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rush | amod |
| 15 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ceased | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 feet | case |
| 17 | fugitive | fugitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 feet | amod |
| 18 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rush | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Drifted | punct |
| 20 | Drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 strain | conj |
| 21 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 northward | advmod |
| 22 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 20 Drifted | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 strain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | participle | that phantom rush of fugitive feet | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality rush=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | drift | participle | northward property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | rush | fugitive feet | nom rush «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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