The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 4
And O, to hear in woods the loud hounds baying, Or plunge of floods adown some hoarse ravine!
Who acts: loud hounds · What happens: hear, bay, plunge · To what, where: loud hounds, woods, plunge adown, floods
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 (loud hounds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hear | cc |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 5 hear | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 hear | mark |
| 5 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 woods | case |
| 7 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hounds | det |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hounds | amod |
| 10 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hear | obj |
| 11 | baying | bay | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 hounds | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 plunge | punct |
| 13 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 plunge | cc |
| 14 | plunge | plunge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 adown | compound |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 floods | case |
| 16 | floods | flood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 plunge | nmod |
| 17 | adown | adown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baying | obj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 ravine | det |
| 19 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 ravine | amod |
| 20 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 baying | obj |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | to-infinitive | the loud hounds | woods | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer hound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bay | gerund | the loud hounds not said here | plunge adown | some hoarse ravine obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | plunge | floods | nom plunge «act transitive»: of=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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