The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 204
But the might Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That nightly hung above him like a cloud Began to wither when that mist accursed Drifted from Uladh’s borders.
Who acts: Unholy · What happens: hang, wither, drift · To what, where: mist, borders
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 (Unholy), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 hung | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Unholy | det |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 Unholy | aux |
| 4 | Unholy | Unholy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 clan | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 clan | det |
| 7 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Unholy | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Cailitin | case |
| 9 | Cailitin | Cailitin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 clan | nmod |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Unholy | nmod:unmarked |
| 11 | nightly | nightly | ADV | _ | 12 hung | advmod |
| 12 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hung | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 cloud | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cloud | det |
| 17 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hung | obl |
| 18 | Began | Began | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cloud | appos |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 wither | mark |
| 20 | wither | wither | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hung | advcl |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 Drifted | mark |
| 22 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 mist | det |
| 23 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 Drifted | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | accursed | accurs | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 Drifted | aux:pass |
| 25 | Drifted | drift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 wither | advcl |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 borders | case |
| 27 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 borders | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Uladh | case |
| 29 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 Drifted | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | the Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That | above Orloff; like a cloud; nightly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location | ||||
| 2 | wither | to-infinitive | the Unholy of the clan of Cailitin That not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | drift | past · passive | that mist | Uladh's borders | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme from border=Trajectory |
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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