The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 95
Then, dawn by dawn, ere yet the low-tongued wind From unreluctant buds their sweets was wooing, While earliest shafts through ragged fissures blind Of cloud forth flashed, the flying night pursuing, Those brothers and that sister clomb the crag And blew the horn, and roused the antlered stag.
Who acts: dawn, cloud, flying night, sister clomb · What happens: woo, flash, fly, pursue, crag, blow · To what, where: earliest shafts, ragged fissures, horn, antlered stag
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 (dawn, cloud, flying night, sister clomb), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 wooing | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wooing | nsubj |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 dawn | case |
| 5 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawn | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ere | punct |
| 7 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawn | conj |
| 8 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 13 wind | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 10 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tongued | amod |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 low | punct |
| 12 | tongued | tongued | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wind | amod |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dawn | conj |
| 14 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 buds | case |
| 15 | unreluctant | unreluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 buds | amod |
| 16 | buds | bud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 wind | nmod |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sweets | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sweets | sweet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 buds | conj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 wooing | aux |
| 20 | wooing | woo | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 blew | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 wooing | punct |
| 22 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 shafts | mark |
| 23 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 shafts | amod |
| 24 | shafts | shaft | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wooing | obj |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 27 fissures | case |
| 26 | ragged | ragged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fissures | amod |
| 27 | fissures | fissure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shafts | nmod |
| 28 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fissures | amod |
| 29 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cloud | case |
| 30 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 blind | obl |
| 31 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 32 flashed | advmod |
| 32 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 night | punct |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 night | det |
| 35 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 night | amod |
| 36 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shafts | conj |
| 37 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 night | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 brothers | punct |
| 39 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 40 brothers | det |
| 40 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 shafts | conj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 crag | cc |
| 42 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 clomb | det |
| 43 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 clomb | compound |
| 44 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 crag | nsubj |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 crag | det |
| 46 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shafts | conj |
| 47 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 blew | cc |
| 48 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 horn | det |
| 50 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 blew | obj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 roused | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 roused | cc |
| 53 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 blew | conj |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 stag | det |
| 55 | antlered | antlered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 stag | amod |
| 56 | stag | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 roused | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woo | past · progressive | dawn by dawn and ere yet the tongued wind from unreluctant buds and buds's sweets | earliest shafts and the flying night and that brothers and the crag | ragged fissures | then | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shaft=Patient | ||
| 2 | flash | past | cloud not said here | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | pursue | gerund | the flying night not said here | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | crag | that sister clomb | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | blow | past | the horn | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||||
| 7 | rouse | past | the antlered stag | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=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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