The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 55
Her brow was bright with thought; her hand, raised high, Above its destined prize hung hoveringly.
Who acts: brow, destined prize · What happens: be, raise, destine, hang · To what, where: hand
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 (brow, destined prize), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 brow | nmod:poss |
| 2 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bright | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 bright | cop |
| 4 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 thought | case |
| 6 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bright | obl |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 bright | conj |
| 12 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 raised | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hung | punct |
| 14 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 18 hung | mark |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 prize | nmod:poss |
| 16 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 prize | amod |
| 17 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hung | nsubj |
| 18 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 raised | conj |
| 19 | hoveringly | hoveringly | ADV | _ | 18 hung | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 bright | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Deirdré's brow | with thought; bright property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | raise | participle · passive | Deirdré's hand | high property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | destine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | hang | past | hand's destined prize | hoveringly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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