The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 17
Silent stood At noon the hunter on a jutting crag: His eye upon a tower-crowned island fell; Thereon it fastened, bound as by a spell.
Who acts: Silent, eye · What happens: stand, jut, crown, fall, fasten, bind · To what, where: hunter, jutting crag
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: who acts (Silent, eye), 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 | Silent | Silent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 noon | case |
| 4 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hunter | det |
| 6 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 crag | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 crag | det |
| 9 | jutting | jut | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 crag | amod |
| 10 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 eye | punct |
| 12 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 eye | nmod:poss |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 island | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 island | det |
| 16 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 crowned | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 tower | punct |
| 18 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 island | amod |
| 19 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 eye | nmod |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 crag | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 fastened | punct |
| 22 | Thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 24 fastened | advmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 fastened | nsubj |
| 24 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stood | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bound | punct |
| 26 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 fastened | ccomp |
| 27 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 spell | case |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 spell | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 spell | det |
| 30 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bound | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | Silent | the hunter | a jutting crag | noon | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hunter=Theme on crag=Destination | ||
| 2 | jut | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | crown | participle | tower compound | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | Silent's eye upon a crowned island | a jutting crag not said here | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient crag=Result | ||||
| 5 | fasten | past | eye | thereon property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | bind | participle | eye not said here | as a spell | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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