The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 37
And drave with fifty chariots in array To where the land’s chief river like a sea, There named Lough Derg, spreads out in gulf and bay And many a woody mountain sees its face Imaged in that clear flood with softened grace.
Who acts: you, woody mountain · What happens: drave, name, spread out, see, image, soften · To what, where: array, gulf, many, face, clear flood
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 (you, woody mountain), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 drave | cc |
| 2 | drave | drave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 chariots | case |
| 4 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 chariots | nummod |
| 5 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 drave | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 array | case |
| 7 | array | array | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 8 | To | to | ADP | _ | 14 river | case |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 river | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 land | det |
| 11 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 river | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 land | case |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 river | compound |
| 14 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 drave | obl |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 sea | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sea | det |
| 17 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 river | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 named | punct |
| 19 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 named | expl |
| 20 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 river | conj |
| 21 | Lough | Lough | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 named | xcomp |
| 22 | Derg | Derg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lough | flat |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 spreads | punct |
| 24 | spreads | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 drave | parataxis |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 spreads | compound:prt |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 gulf | case |
| 27 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spreads | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bay | cc |
| 29 | bay | bay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 gulf | conj |
| 30 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sees | cc |
| 31 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 sees | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 mountain | det |
| 33 | woody | woody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 mountain | amod |
| 34 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sees | nsubj |
| 35 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 spreads | conj |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 face | nmod:poss |
| 37 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sees | obj |
| 38 | Imaged | image | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 face | acl |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 flood | case |
| 40 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 flood | det |
| 41 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 flood | amod |
| 42 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 Imaged | obl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 45 grace | case |
| 44 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 grace | amod |
| 45 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 flood | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 drave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drave | imperative | you not said here | array | with fifty chariots; to the land's chief river like a sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | name | participle | you not said here | there | Lough xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | spread out | present | gulf and bay | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in gulf=Location | |||||
| 4 | see | present | a woody mountain | many | mountain's face obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | image | participle | mountain's face not said here | that clear flood with softened grace | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | soften | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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