The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 72
This day the bolt is launched from yonder sky: This day the Destiny foretold beginneth: Woe to the Three!
Who acts: day · What happens: launch, foretell, begin · To what, where: bolt, sky, Destiny, Woe
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 (day), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bolt | det |
| 4 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 launched | aux:pass |
| 6 | launched | launch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sky | case |
| 8 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 9 sky | advmod |
| 9 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 launched | obl |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 beginneth | punct |
| 11 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 day | det |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beginneth | nsubj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Destiny | det |
| 14 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 foretold | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 day | acl:relcl |
| 16 | beginneth | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 launched | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 Woe | punct |
| 18 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beginneth | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 Three | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Three | det |
| 21 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Woe | nmod |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 launched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | launch | present · passive | the bolt | sky | day | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: subject=Theme from sky=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | foretell | participle | this day not said here | the Destiny | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | begin | present | this day | Woe | to the Three | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Eventuality |
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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