The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 2
The Gael sailed forth, nine waves; then turned, and gazed-- Night wrapt the isle, and storm by magic raised!
Who acts: Gael, Night, storm, magic · What happens: sail, turn, gaze, wrapt, raise, storm · To what, where: nine waves, isle
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gael, Night, storm, magic), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gael | det |
| 2 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sailed | nsubj |
| 3 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 sailed | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 waves | punct |
| 6 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 waves | nummod |
| 7 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sailed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sailed | conj |
| 14 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 wrapt | punct |
| 15 | Night | Night | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 wrapt | nsubj |
| 16 | wrapt | wrapt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gazed | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 isle | det |
| 18 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrapt | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 raised | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 raised | cc |
| 21 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 raised | nsubj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 magic | case |
| 23 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 storm | nmod |
| 24 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 sailed | conj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | the Gael | nine waves | forth property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | turn | past | the Gael not said here | then | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | the Gael not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wrapt | present | Night | the isle | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | storm by magic | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | storm | magic | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: by=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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