The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 96
Within that mist I see strange lights that cross like shooting stars; Cross and re-cross, quick-bickering.’
Who acts: I, strange lights · What happens: see, cross, shoot, bicker · To what, where: strange lights, stars
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 (I, strange lights), 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 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 3 mist | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 mist | det |
| 3 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 see | nsubj |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lights | amod |
| 7 | lights | light | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 see | obj |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 cross | nsubj |
| 9 | cross | cross | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lights | acl:relcl |
| 10 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 11 shooting | mark |
| 11 | shooting | shoot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cross | advcl |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shooting | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cross | punct |
| 14 | Cross | Cross | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 see | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 re-cross | cc |
| 16 | re-cross | re-cross | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Cross | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bickering | punct |
| 18 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 bickering | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 quick | punct |
| 20 | bickering | bicker | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 Cross | appos |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | strange lights | within that mist; Cross and re-cross obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer light=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cross | present | strange lights | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | shoot | gerund | strange lights not said here | stars | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent star=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bicker | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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