The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 103
Then Barach, as that fated bark drew near, With courteous seeming but a purpose fell Sailed forth to meet it, making goodly cheer With bannered boat and tossing coracle So densely clustered that the billow green Betwixt them scarcely showed its sparkling sheen.
Who acts: Barach, billow · What happens: draw, sail, meet, make, toss, cluster · To what, where: courteous seeming, bark, goodly cheer, coracle, sparkling sheen
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Barach, billow), 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 | 2 Barach | advmod |
| 2 | Barach | Barach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Barach | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 drew | mark |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 bark | det |
| 6 | fated | fated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 bark | amod |
| 7 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 drew | nsubj |
| 8 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 drew | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seeming | punct |
| 11 | With | with | ADP | _ | 13 seeming | case |
| 12 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seeming | amod |
| 13 | seeming | seeming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Sailed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 purpose | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 purpose | det |
| 16 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seeming | conj |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 Sailed | aux:pass |
| 18 | Sailed | sail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 drew | advcl |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 Sailed | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 meet | mark |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Sailed | advcl |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 making | punct |
| 24 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 Sailed | advcl |
| 25 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cheer | amod |
| 26 | cheer | cheer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obj |
| 27 | With | with | ADP | _ | 29 boat | case |
| 28 | bannered | bannered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 boat | amod |
| 29 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 making | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 tossing | cc |
| 31 | tossing | toss | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 making | conj |
| 32 | coracle | coracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 tossing | obj |
| 33 | So | so | ADV | _ | 35 clustered | advmod |
| 34 | densely | densely | ADV | _ | 35 clustered | advmod |
| 35 | clustered | cluster | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 tossing | advcl |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 43 showed | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 billow | det |
| 38 | billow | billow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 showed | nsubj |
| 39 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Betwixt | amod |
| 40 | Betwixt | Betwixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 billow | appos |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 billow | obj |
| 42 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 43 showed | advmod |
| 43 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 clustered | advcl |
| 44 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 sheen | nmod:poss |
| 45 | sparkling | sparkling | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 sheen | amod |
| 46 | sheen | sheen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 showed | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | Barach | that fated bark nsubj; near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sail | past · passive | courteous seeming but a purpose | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | meet | to-infinitive | bark | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | goodly cheer | with bannered boat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cheer=Product | ||||
| 5 | toss | gerund | coracle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coracle=Patient | |||||
| 6 | cluster | past | densely property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | show | past | the billow cheer | billow's sparkling sheen | scarcely property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sheen=Recipient |
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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