The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 79
Next morning, from that spot Northward to Eman lay a branded track: Straight as a lance still stretched it, league on league; A bar of winter black through harvest fields, A bridge of ice spanning the rippling waves; A pledge that men had dreamed not.
Who acts: lance, ice · What happens: lie, brand, stretch, span, not dream · To what, where: branded track, track, rippling waves, pledge
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 (lance, ice), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 spot | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 spot | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 spot | det |
| 6 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | appos |
| 7 | Northward | northward | ADV | _ | 6 spot | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Eman | case |
| 9 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 spot | nmod |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 track | det |
| 12 | branded | brand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 track | amod |
| 13 | track | track | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Straight | punct |
| 15 | Straight | straight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | conj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 stretched | mark |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 lance | det |
| 18 | lance | lance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | nsubj |
| 19 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 stretched | advmod |
| 20 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Straight | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 stretched | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 league | punct |
| 23 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stretched | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 league | case |
| 25 | league | league | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 league | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 black | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 bar | det |
| 28 | bar | bar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 black | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 winter | case |
| 30 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bar | nmod |
| 31 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | parataxis |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 34 fields | case |
| 33 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fields | compound |
| 34 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 black | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 bridge | punct |
| 36 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 bridge | det |
| 37 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 ice | case |
| 39 | ice | ice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 bridge | nmod |
| 40 | spanning | span | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 ice | acl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 waves | det |
| 42 | rippling | rippling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 waves | compound |
| 43 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 spanning | obj |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 pledge | punct |
| 45 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 pledge | det |
| 46 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | parataxis |
| 47 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 dreamed | nsubj:pass |
| 48 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 dreamed | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 dreamed | aux |
| 50 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 pledge | acl:relcl |
| 51 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 50 dreamed | advmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | a branded track | morning | a bridge of ice obl; a pledge parataxis | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location track=Theme | |||
| 2 | brand | participle | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | stretch | past | a lance | track | still | league on league obl | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 4 | span | gerund | ice not said here | the rippling waves | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wave=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | not dream | past · perfect · passive | a pledge | men nsubj | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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