The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 2

To hear from shadowy cliff and cavern hollow Through glistening air the clarion’s echo break, And mark, o’er wide green plain, and purple mere, The mountain-wall its glooming bastion rear

Who acts: mark, break, clarion · What happens: hear, hollow, glisten, plain, gloom, break · To what, where: shadowy cliff, air, mountain wall, bastion rear

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 (mark, break, clarion), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 hear	mark
2	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 hollow	advcl
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 cliff	case
4	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cliff	amod
5	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hear	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cavern	cc
7	cavern	cavern	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cliff	conj
8	hollow	hollow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Through	through	SCONJ	_	10 glistening	mark
10	glistening	glisten	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 hollow	advcl
11	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glistening	obj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 clarion	det
13	clarion	clarion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 break	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 clarion	case
15	echo	echo	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 break	compound
16	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 glistening	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plain	punct
18	And	and	CCONJ	_	24 plain	cc
19	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plain	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 o’er	punct
21	o’er	o'er	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mark	conj
22	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plain	amod
23	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 plain	amod
24	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hollow	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 mere	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mere	cc
27	purple	purple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 mere	amod
28	mere	mere	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plain	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 wall	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 wall	det
31	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 wall	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 mountain	punct
33	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 plain	nmod
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 glooming	nsubj
35	glooming	gloom	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 wall	acl:relcl
36	bastion	bastion	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 rear	compound
37	rear	rear	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 glooming	obj

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hear	to-infinitive			shadowy cliff and cavern		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cliff=Source
2	hollow	present					vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent
3	glisten	gerund		air		the clarion's echo break obj	tree rules
4	plain		mark and o’er	the mountain wall		purple mere conj	tree rules
5	gloom	gerund	break	bastion rear			tree rules
6	break		the clarion				nom break «event transitive»: 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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 2

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 2