The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 107
These, when the white fleet of the Gael drew nigh Green Erin’s shore, their heritage decreed, O’er-meshed, through rites unholy, earth and sky With sudden gloom.
Who acts: These, heritage · What happens: draw, decree, mesh · To what, where: shore, rites
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 (These, heritage), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 drew | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fleet | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fleet | amod |
| 6 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Gael | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Gael | det |
| 9 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fleet | nmod |
| 10 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 10 drew | advmod |
| 12 | Green | Green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Erin | amod |
| 13 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Erin | case |
| 15 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drew | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 decreed | punct |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 heritage | nmod:poss |
| 18 | heritage | heritage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decreed | nsubj |
| 19 | decreed | decree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 shore | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meshed | punct |
| 21 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 meshed | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 O’er | punct |
| 23 | meshed | mesh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 decreed | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 rites | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 rites | case |
| 26 | rites | rite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 meshed | obl |
| 27 | unholy | unholy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 meshed | xcomp |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 earth | punct |
| 29 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shore | conj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sky | cc |
| 31 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 earth | conj |
| 32 | With | with | ADP | _ | 34 gloom | case |
| 33 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 gloom | amod |
| 34 | gloom | gloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 earth | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | These | Green Erin's shore and earth with sudden gloom and sky | the white fleet of the Gael nsubj; nigh property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | |||
| 2 | decree | past | Gael's heritage | Green Erin's shore and earth with sudden gloom and sky not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mesh | participle | Gael's heritage not said here | rites | O’er compound; unholy property | tree rules |
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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