The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 238
From below Writhing in torment of their rage they heaved The grassy surface upward into waves Now swelling, now descending.
Who acts: works, waves · What happens: heave, swell, descend, torment, rage · To what, where: grassy surface, Writhing, rage
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 (works, waves), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 3 Writhing | case |
| 2 | below | below | ADP | _ | 3 Writhing | case |
| 3 | Writhing | writhing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heaved | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 torment | case |
| 5 | torment | torment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Writhing | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 torment | nmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 heaved | nsubj |
| 10 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surface | det |
| 12 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 surface | amod |
| 13 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heaved | obj |
| 14 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 16 waves | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 waves | case |
| 16 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 swelling | nsubj |
| 17 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 swelling | advmod |
| 18 | swelling | swell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 heaved | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 descending | punct |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 descending | advmod |
| 21 | descending | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 swelling | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heaved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | heave | past | works = work | the grassy surface | Writhing in torment of works's rage | tree rules | |||
| 2 | swell | gerund | waves | now | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | descend | gerund | waves not said here | now | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | torment | works's rage | nom torment «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | rage | works = work | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: 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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