The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 76
Terrible as Fate The goddess of the battles high o’er head Sailed on full-panoplied, in hue as when On Alpine snows, their sunset glories gone, Night’s winding-sheet descends.
Who acts: sunset, winding sheet · What happens: sail, panoply, glory, descend · To what, where: high o’er head, hue, Alpine snows
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 (sunset, winding sheet), 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 | Terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 3 Fate | case |
| 3 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Terrible | obl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goddess | det |
| 5 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fate | appos |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 battles | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 battles | det |
| 8 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 goddess | nmod |
| 9 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 head | amod |
| 10 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 head | compound |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 battles | conj |
| 12 | Sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 head | acl |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 16 panoplied | mark |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 panoplied | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 full | punct |
| 16 | panoplied | panoply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Sailed | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hue | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 hue | case |
| 19 | hue | hue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 panoplied | obl |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 glories | mark |
| 21 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 glories | mark |
| 22 | On | on | ADP | _ | 24 snows | case |
| 23 | Alpine | alpine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 snows | amod |
| 24 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 glories | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 snows | punct |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sunset | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 glories | nsubj |
| 28 | glories | glory | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 panoplied | advcl |
| 29 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 glories | xcomp |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 descends | punct |
| 31 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 sheet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Night | case |
| 33 | winding | winding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sheet | compound |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 33 winding | punct |
| 35 | sheet | sheet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 descends | nsubj |
| 36 | descends | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 glories | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Terrible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | participle | high o’er head not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | panoply | participle | hue | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | glory | present | snows's sunset | Alpine snows | gone property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | descend | present | Night's winding sheet | vn meander-47.7-1 «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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