The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 250
On and on Adown that slope he flashed and o’er that plain Like zigzag sunshaft o’er the autumnal world; And ever where he came the host of Meave Gave way before him.
Who acts: that, Ilgairig, o’er · What happens: slope, flash, plain, come · To what, where: Adown, o’er
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 (that, Ilgairig, o’er), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 Adown | case |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 Adown | cc |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 Adown | case |
| 4 | Adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slope | obl |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 slope | nsubj |
| 6 | slope | slope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 flashed | nsubj |
| 8 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slope | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 o’er | cc |
| 10 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flashed | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 plain | nsubj |
| 12 | plain | plain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 o’er | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 15 sunshaft | case |
| 14 | zigzag | zigzag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunshaft | compound |
| 15 | sunshaft | sunshaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 plain | obl |
| 16 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 19 world | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 world | det |
| 18 | autumnal | autumnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 world | amod |
| 19 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sunshaft | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 him | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 him | cc |
| 22 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 23 where | advmod |
| 23 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 came | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 him | advcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 host | det |
| 27 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 came | nsubj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 way | case |
| 29 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Gave | compound |
| 30 | Gave | Gave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 way | compound |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 host | nmod |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 him | case |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slope | parataxis |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slope | present | that | Adown | Ilgairig parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | flash | past | Ilgairig | o’er | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent o'er=Theme | ||||
| 3 | plain | present | o’er | like zigzag sunshaft o'er the autumnal world | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Ilgairig | ever | the host of Gave way nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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