The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 14
Sail on till buried in the ascending sun!’
What happens: bury, ascend · To what, where: Sail, ascending sun
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 buried | mark |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 4 buried | mark |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Sail | acl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 sun | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 7 | ascending | ascend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 sun | amod |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sail | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | participle | Sail not said here | the ascending sun | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in sun=Destination | ||||
| 2 | ascend | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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