The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 11
When dawn Looked coldly forth through mist along the meads Far off he kenned a rock: that rock he deemed A second bull: collecting all his might Thereon he hurled his giant bulk, and died.
Who acts: dawn, conqueror, rock · What happens: look, ken, deem, collect, hurl, die · To what, where: rock, second bull, conqueror, giant bulk
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dawn, conqueror, rock), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Looked | advmod |
| 2 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Looked | nsubj |
| 3 | Looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kenned | parataxis |
| 4 | coldly | coldly | ADV | _ | 5 forth | advmod |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 Looked | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 mist | case |
| 7 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Looked | obl |
| 8 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 meads | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 meads | det |
| 10 | meads | mead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Looked | obl |
| 11 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 kenned | advmod |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 kenned | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kenned | nsubj |
| 14 | kenned | ken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 rock | det |
| 16 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kenned | obj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 deemed | punct |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 rock | det |
| 19 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deemed | nsubj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 deemed | nsubj |
| 21 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 kenned | conj |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 bull | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 24 bull | amod |
| 24 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deemed | obj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 collecting | punct |
| 26 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 deemed | advcl |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 his | det:predet |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 collecting | obj |
| 29 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hurled | aux |
| 30 | Thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 32 hurled | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 hurled | nsubj |
| 32 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 his | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bulk | nmod:poss |
| 34 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 bulk | amod |
| 35 | bulk | bulk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hurled | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 died | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 died | cc |
| 38 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 hurled | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 kenned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past | dawn | along the meads; through mist; forth property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through mist=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ken | past | conqueror | a rock | far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | deem | past | that rock | a second bull | conqueror nsubj | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bull=Attribute | |||
| 4 | collect | gerund | that rock not said here | conqueror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent his=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hurl | might | conqueror | conqueror's giant bulk | thereon property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bulk=Theme | |||
| 6 | die | past | conqueror not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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