The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 42
As she sped, The path before her, prone till then and low, Rising ran out a craggy ridge sublime, The same that for a hundred miles this day Divides the realm.
Who acts: goddess, hundred miles · What happens: speed, rise, run out, divide · To what, where: path, craggy ridge, that
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 (goddess, hundred miles), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sped | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sped | nsubj |
| 3 | sped | speed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ran | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 path | punct |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 path | det |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sped | obj |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 path | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 prone | punct |
| 10 | prone | prone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 path | conj |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 12 then | case |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sped | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 low | cc |
| 14 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 then | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 sped | punct |
| 16 | Rising | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 ran | nsubj |
| 17 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 ran | compound:prt |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 ridge | det |
| 20 | craggy | craggy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ridge | amod |
| 21 | ridge | ridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ran | obj |
| 22 | sublime | sublime | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ran | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 same | punct |
| 24 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 same | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ran | parataxis |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 Divides | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 miles | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 hundred | det |
| 29 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 miles | nummod |
| 30 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 Divides | nsubj |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 day | det |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 miles | nmod:unmarked |
| 33 | Divides | divide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 same | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 realm | det |
| 35 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Divides | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speed | past | goddess | the path and prone | before Erin | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent path=Theme before she=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | rise | gerund | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | run out | past | a craggy ridge | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ridge=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | divide | present | hundred miles this day | that | the realm obj | tree rules |
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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