The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 52
By swift winds blown They rushed above the waves a day and night; At dawn Loch Etive’s mountains loomed in sight.
Who acts: swift winds · What happens: blow, loom · To what, where: mountains, sight
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 (swift winds), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 winds | case |
| 2 | swift | swift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 winds | amod |
| 3 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blown | obl |
| 4 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 blown | aux:pass |
| 7 | above | above | ADP | _ | 9 waves | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 waves | det |
| 9 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rushed | obl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 waves | nmod:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 night | cc |
| 13 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 day | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 mountains | punct |
| 15 | At | at | ADP | _ | 16 dawn | case |
| 16 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 mountains | obl |
| 17 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Loch | flat |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Loch | case |
| 20 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 blown | obl |
| 21 | loomed | loom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 mountains | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 sight | case |
| 23 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 loomed | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 blown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past · passive | swift winds | Loch's mountains at dawn | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | loom | participle | Loch's mountains at dawn not said here | sight | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
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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