The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 54
On Usnach’s clan the Druid’s spells took hold, Feigning what was not: and the wide green plain Seemed to their eyes a great flood slowly rolled From phantom hills.
Who acts: spells, wide green plain, Druid · What happens: take, feign, seem, roll, spell · To what, where: hold, clan, wide green plain, phantom hills
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 (spells, wide green plain, Druid), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 clan | case |
| 2 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 clan | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Usnach | case |
| 4 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Druid | det |
| 6 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spells | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Druid | case |
| 8 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Feigning | punct |
| 12 | Feigning | feign | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | advcl |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 Feigning | obj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 what | acl:relcl |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 was | advmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 rolled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rolled | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 plain | det |
| 19 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plain | amod |
| 20 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plain | amod |
| 21 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rolled | nsubj |
| 22 | Seemed | seem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 plain | acl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Seemed | obl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 flood | det |
| 27 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 flood | amod |
| 28 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eyes | nmod |
| 29 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 30 rolled | advmod |
| 30 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 31 | From | from | ADP | _ | 33 hills | case |
| 32 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 hills | compound |
| 33 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rolled | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Druid's spells | hold | Usnach's clan | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hold=Theme on clan=Destination | |||
| 2 | feign | gerund | the Druid's spells not said here | what obj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 3 | seem | participle | the wide green plain not said here | to hosts's eyes a great flood | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | roll | past | the wide green plain | phantom hills | slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hill=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | spell | the Druid | nom spell «state 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/54/