The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 40
In that early springtide the hard and rugged March buds of Song were scarcely distinguishable from the rough rind of fact out of which they had pushed.
Who acts: hard March buds, buds · What happens: be, push · To what, where: early springtide, fact
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hard March buds, buds), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 springtide | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 springtide | det |
| 3 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 springtide | amod |
| 4 | springtide | springtide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distinguishable | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 buds | det |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 buds | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rugged | cc |
| 8 | rugged | rugged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hard | conj |
| 9 | March | March | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 buds | compound |
| 10 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 distinguishable | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Song | case |
| 12 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 buds | nmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 distinguishable | cop |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 distinguishable | advmod |
| 15 | distinguishable | distinguishable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 rind | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 rind | det |
| 18 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 rind | amod |
| 19 | rind | rind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 distinguishable | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 fact | case |
| 21 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 rind | nmod |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 pushed | obl |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 pushed | nsubj |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 pushed | aux |
| 27 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 fact | acl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 distinguishable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hard March buds of Song | that early springtide | from the rough rind of fact; distinguishable, scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | push | past · perfect | buds = bud | fact | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent out which=Trajectory |
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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