The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 96
In thee the autumnal berry Sent forth its flash from reddening brake and bush Like scoff from hard old lip of beldam merry!
Who acts: autumnal berry, berry · What happens: send, redden, flash · To what, where: flash, brake, hard old lip, thee
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 (autumnal berry, berry), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 thee | case |
| 2 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 berry | det |
| 4 | autumnal | autumnal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 berry | amod |
| 5 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thee | obj |
| 6 | Sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 berry | acl |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 Sent | advmod |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 flash | nmod:poss |
| 9 | flash | flash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Sent | obj |
| 10 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 11 reddening | mark |
| 11 | reddening | redden | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Sent | advcl |
| 12 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reddening | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bush | cc |
| 14 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brake | conj |
| 15 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 16 scoff | case |
| 16 | scoff | scoff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reddening | obl |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 lip | case |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lip | amod |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 lip | amod |
| 20 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reddening | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 merry | case |
| 22 | beldam | beldam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 merry | compound |
| 23 | merry | merry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lip | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 thee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | participle | the autumnal berry not said here | berry's flash | forth property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Theme | |||
| 2 | redden | gerund | the autumnal berry not said here | brake and bush | hard old lip of beldam merry | like scoff | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brake=Patient | ||
| 4 | flash | berry | nom flash «event intransitive»: 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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