The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 85
Still, as the radiance bickers round the gem, So flashed the battle’s flame round her and them.
Who acts: battle · What happens: bicker, flash, flame · To what, where: flame
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 (battle), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 6 bickers | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 radiance | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 radiance | det |
| 5 | radiance | radiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bickers | obl |
| 6 | bickers | bicker | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 gem | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gem | det |
| 9 | gem | gem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bickers | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 flashed | punct |
| 11 | So | so | ADV | _ | 12 flashed | advmod |
| 12 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bickers | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 battle | det |
| 14 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flame | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 battle | case |
| 16 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 flashed | obj |
| 17 | round | round | ADP | _ | 18 her | case |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flashed | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 them | cc |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 flashed | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bickers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bicker | present | still | as the radiance; round the gem | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | flash | past | the battle's flame | round Three; anon conj | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent flame=Theme | ||||
| 3 | flame | the battle | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=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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