The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 94
Thenceforth around the Red-Branch Mansion higher The madness of the people surged, and roar As though of tempest when great woods catch fire, Or winter waves raking some northern shore; And on the portals seven they dashed; and lo!
Who acts: higher madness, great woods, winter waves, people · What happens: surge, roar, catch, rake, dash · To what, where: tempest, fire, northern shore
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (higher madness, great woods, winter waves, people), 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 | Thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 8 higher | advmod |
| 2 | around | around | ADP | _ | 7 Mansion | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Mansion | det |
| 4 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Branch | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Red | punct |
| 6 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Mansion | compound |
| 7 | Mansion | mansion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Thenceforth | obl |
| 8 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 madness | amod |
| 9 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 madness | det |
| 10 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 surged | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 people | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surged | nsubj |
| 14 | surged | surge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 roar | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 roar | cc |
| 17 | roar | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 surged | conj |
| 18 | As | as | ADV | _ | 17 roar | advmod |
| 19 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 tempest | mark |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tempest | case |
| 21 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roar | xcomp |
| 22 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 catch | advmod |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 woods | amod |
| 24 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 catch | nsubj |
| 25 | catch | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 roar | advcl |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 catch | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 waves | punct |
| 28 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 waves | cc |
| 29 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 waves | compound |
| 30 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surged | parataxis |
| 31 | raking | rake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 waves | acl |
| 32 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 shore | det |
| 33 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 shore | amod |
| 34 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 raking | obj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 lo | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 lo | cc |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 portals | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 portals | det |
| 39 | portals | portal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 And | conj |
| 40 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 portals | flat |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 dashed | nsubj |
| 42 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 seven | acl:relcl |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 lo | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 lo | cc |
| 45 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 14 surged | discourse |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 surged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surge | past | the higher madness | the people nsubj; winter waves parataxis | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | roar | present | the higher madness not said here | tempest | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | catch | present | great woods | fire | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rake | gerund | winter waves not said here | some northern shore | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent shore=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | dash | past | people | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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