The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 80
Ere long their march was through the misty highlands: They tracked Glenorchy’s immemorial woods; Loch Lomond’s bosky mountain-skirts and islands; Birch-braided Katrine’s sylvan solitudes; And where on shores of Fyne, now low now higher, With punctual tide the salt sea floods respire.
Who acts: long march, brothers, sea floods · What happens: be, track, braid, respire · To what, where: misty highlands, immemorial woods, sylvan solitudes, punctual tide
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 (long march, brothers, sea floods), 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 | Ere | ere | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 march | amod |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 march | nmod:poss |
| 4 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 highlands | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 highlands | cop |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 highlands | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 highlands | det |
| 8 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 highlands | amod |
| 9 | highlands | highland | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 tracked | punct |
| 11 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tracked | nsubj |
| 12 | tracked | track | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 highlands | acl:relcl |
| 13 | Glenorchy | Glenorchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 woods | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Glenorchy | case |
| 15 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 woods | amod |
| 16 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tracked | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 skirts | punct |
| 18 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 skirts | nmod:poss |
| 19 | Lomond | Lomond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Loch | flat |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Loch | case |
| 21 | bosky | bosky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 skirts | amod |
| 22 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 skirts | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 mountain | punct |
| 24 | skirts | skirt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 highlands | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 islands | cc |
| 26 | islands | island | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 skirts | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 braided | punct |
| 28 | Birch | birch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 braided | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 Birch | punct |
| 30 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 highlands | conj |
| 31 | Katrine | Katrine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 solitudes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Katrine | case |
| 33 | sylvan | sylvan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 solitudes | amod |
| 34 | solitudes | solitude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 braided | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 where | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 where | cc |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 highlands | nmod |
| 38 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 shores | case |
| 39 | shores | shore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 where | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Fyne | case |
| 41 | Fyne | Fyne | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 shores | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 higher | punct |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 higher | advmod |
| 44 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 higher | advmod |
| 45 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 46 higher | advmod |
| 46 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 39 shores | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 tide | punct |
| 48 | With | with | ADP | _ | 50 tide | case |
| 49 | punctual | punctual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 tide | amod |
| 50 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 higher | obl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 floods | det |
| 52 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 sea | compound |
| 53 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 floods | compound |
| 54 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 respire | nsubj |
| 55 | respire | respire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 50 tide | acl:relcl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 highlands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brothers's long march | the misty highlands and Loch's bosky mountain skirts and islands | Loch's bosky mountain skirts and islands conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | track | past | brothers = brother | Glenorchy's immemorial woods | vn stalk-35.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme | ||||
| 3 | braid | participle | brothers's long march not said here | Katrine's sylvan solitudes | Birch compound | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solitude=Patient | |||
| 4 | respire | present | the sea floods | punctual tide not said here | tree rules |
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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