The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 266
Who died not, fled and left Yet ampler ’twixt the bristling flanks of war That vacant space; and as the dolphin oft Raptured by gladness of clear summer seas While flames the noon on purple billows, swims All round and round some ship full-sailed, so he Circled on foot at times that car wind-swift Mocking its slowness; then with airy bound Once more within it beamed.
Who acts: dolphin, wind swift, slowness · What happens: not die, flee, leave, bristle, rapture, swim · To what, where: twixt, dolphin, ship, foot, slowness
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 (dolphin, wind swift, slowness), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 died | nsubj |
| 2 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 died | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fled | punct |
| 5 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 died | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 left | cc |
| 7 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fled | conj |
| 8 | Yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 ampler | advmod |
| 9 | ampler | ample | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 left | xcomp |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 twixt | punct |
| 11 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flanks | det |
| 13 | bristling | bristle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 flanks | amod |
| 14 | flanks | flank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 died | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 flanks | nmod |
| 17 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 space | det |
| 18 | vacant | vacant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 space | amod |
| 19 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 swims | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 swims | cc |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 dolphin | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 dolphin | det |
| 24 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 swims | obl |
| 25 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 dolphin | amod |
| 26 | Raptured | rapture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dolphin | acl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 gladness | case |
| 28 | gladness | gladness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Raptured | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 seas | case |
| 30 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 seas | amod |
| 31 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seas | compound |
| 32 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 gladness | nmod |
| 33 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 34 flames | case |
| 34 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 Raptured | obl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 noon | det |
| 36 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 flames | appos |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 billows | case |
| 38 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 billows | amod |
| 39 | billows | billow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 noon | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dolphin | punct |
| 41 | swims | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 died | conj |
| 42 | All | all | ADV | _ | 43 round | advmod |
| 43 | round | round | ADV | _ | 41 swims | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 round | cc |
| 45 | round | round | ADV | _ | 43 round | conj |
| 46 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 ship | det |
| 47 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 swims | obj |
| 48 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 sailed | amod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 full | punct |
| 50 | sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 ship | acl:relcl |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 Circled | punct |
| 52 | so | so | ADV | _ | 54 Circled | advmod |
| 53 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 54 Circled | nsubj |
| 54 | Circled | circle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 swims | advcl |
| 55 | on | on | ADP | _ | 56 foot | case |
| 56 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 Circled | obl |
| 57 | at | at | ADP | _ | 58 times | case |
| 58 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 Circled | obl |
| 59 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 60 car | det |
| 60 | car | car | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 times | nmod:unmarked |
| 61 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 63 swift | compound |
| 62 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 61 wind | punct |
| 63 | swift | swift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 car | nmod |
| 64 | Mocking | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 63 swift | acl |
| 65 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 66 slowness | nmod:poss |
| 66 | slowness | slowness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 64 Mocking | obj |
| 67 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 71 bound | punct |
| 68 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 71 bound | advmod |
| 69 | with | with | ADP | _ | 71 bound | case |
| 70 | airy | airy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 71 bound | amod |
| 71 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 died | obl |
| 72 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 73 more | advmod |
| 73 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 71 bound | advmod |
| 74 | within | within | ADP | _ | 76 beamed | mark |
| 75 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 76 beamed | nsubj |
| 76 | beamed | beam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 died | advcl |
| 77 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 died | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | past | twixt | with airy bound; that vacant space obl; Who nsubj; the bristling flanks of war obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flee | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | leave | past | ample property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | bristle | gerund | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | ||||||
| 5 | rapture | participle | the dolphin not said here | by gladness of clear summer seas; while flames | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | swim | present | some ship | as the dolphin; round property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ship=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | sail | participle | some ship not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | circle | past | dolphin | foot | time | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 9 | mock | gerund | wind swift not said here | swift's slowness | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent slowness=Theme | ||||
| 10 | beam | past | slowness | vn light_emission-43.1 «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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