The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 10
Responded, from the blue deeps landward rolling; The wave of Toth on Erin’s northern coast; Green Clidna’s wave like funeral bells far tolling; And Rory’s wave, the loudest.
Who acts: funeral bells, Green Clidna, Rory · What happens: respond, toll, wave · To what, where: wave, blue deeps, Toth, northern coast
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (funeral bells, Green Clidna, Rory), 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 | Responded | respond | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deeps | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 deeps | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deeps | det |
| 5 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 deeps | amod |
| 6 | deeps | deep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Responded | obl |
| 7 | landward | landward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rolling | amod |
| 8 | rolling | rolling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deeps | conj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wave | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wave | det |
| 11 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Responded | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Toth | case |
| 13 | Toth | Toth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 wave | nmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coast | case |
| 15 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 coast | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 Erin | case |
| 17 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coast | amod |
| 18 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wave | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 wave | punct |
| 20 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Clidna | amod |
| 21 | Clidna | Clidna | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 wave | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Clidna | case |
| 23 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Responded | obl |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 26 bells | case |
| 25 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bells | compound |
| 26 | bells | bell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 wave | nmod |
| 27 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 tolling | advmod |
| 28 | tolling | toll | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 bells | acl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 loudest | punct |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 loudest | cc |
| 31 | Rory | Rory | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 wave | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Rory | case |
| 33 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 loudest | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 loudest | punct |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 loudest | det |
| 36 | loudest | loud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 1 Responded | parataxis |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Responded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | respond speech: other | participle | the wave of Toth on Erin's northern coast | the blue deeps and landward rolling | Green Clidna's wave like funeral bells obl | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | toll | gerund | funeral bells not said here | far property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wave | Toth | Erin's northern coast | nom wave «event transitive»: of=patient on=place | |||||
| 4 | wave | Green Clidna | like funeral bells | nom wave «event transitive»: poss=agent like=obl | |||||
| 5 | wave | Rory | nom wave «event transitive»: 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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