The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 55
Through it they pushed with pain: And on their eyes a phantom mist was driven: And o’er them leaned, low-hung, a phantom heaven.
Who acts: plain, hills · What happens: push, drive, o'er, learn, hang · To what, where: phantom mist, eyes, phantom heaven
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 (plain, hills), 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 | Through | through | SCONJ | _ | 4 pushed | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pushed | nsubj |
| 4 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 pain | case |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pushed | obl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 driven | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 driven | cc |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 driven | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mist | det |
| 13 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mist | amod |
| 14 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 driven | aux:pass |
| 16 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 pushed | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 o’er | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 o’er | cc |
| 19 | o’er | o'er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pushed | advcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 leaned | nsubj |
| 21 | leaned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 o’er | ccomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 hung | punct |
| 23 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 hung | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 low | punct |
| 25 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 o’er | parataxis |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 heaven | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 heaven | det |
| 28 | phantom | phantom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 heaven | compound |
| 29 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hung | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | plain | with pain; hills = hill nsubj | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | drive | past · passive | a phantom mist | hills's eyes | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on eye=Destination | ||||
| 3 | o'er | infinitive | plain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | learn | past | hills = hill | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | hang | participle | a phantom heaven | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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