The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 9
Shepherds, through wood-skirts peering, saw the end, The Donn, at sunset, rushing t’ward the north, And, on his conqueror’s back--their horns entwined-- Fionbannah dead!
Who acts: wood skirts, Shepherds, horns · What happens: peer, see, rush, entwine · To what, where: end, north
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 (wood skirts, Shepherds, horns), 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 | Shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 skirts | punct |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 skirts | case |
| 4 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 skirts | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 wood | punct |
| 6 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Shepherds | nmod |
| 7 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 skirts | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 peering | punct |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 end | det |
| 11 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Donn | punct |
| 13 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Donn | det |
| 14 | Donn | Donn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 end | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sunset | punct |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 sunset | case |
| 17 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 rushing | punct |
| 19 | rushing | rush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 saw | advcl |
| 20 | t’ward | t'ward | ADV | _ | 22 north | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 north | det |
| 22 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rushing | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 ’s | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ’s | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 And | punct |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 conqueror | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 conqueror | nmod:poss |
| 28 | conqueror | conqueror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ’s | obl |
| 29 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | parataxis |
| 30 | back | back | ADV | _ | 29 ’s | advmod |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 34 entwined | punct |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 horns | nmod:poss |
| 33 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 entwined | nsubj |
| 34 | entwined | entwine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 ’s | conj |
| 35 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 37 dead | punct |
| 36 | Fionbannah | Fionbannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 dead | compound |
| 37 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 entwined | ccomp |
| 38 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | peer | gerund | wood skirts not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Shepherds through wood skirts | the end the Donn | sunset | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | rush | gerund | Shepherds through wood skirts not said here | the north | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | entwine | past | Shepherds's horns | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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