The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 71
Here on this lake from misty cape to cape Three centuries ye shall wander to and fro; Three centuries more shall stem with heavier toil Far Alba’s waves, the black sea-strait[18] of Moyle.
Who acts: ye · What happens: wander · To what, where: fro
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 (ye), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 wander | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 lake | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 lake | det |
| 4 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | obl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 cape | case |
| 6 | misty | misty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 cape | amod |
| 7 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lake | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cape | mark |
| 9 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Here | advcl |
| 10 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 centuries | nummod |
| 11 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 12 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 wander | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 wander | aux |
| 14 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 fro | case |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 fro | cc |
| 17 | fro | fro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wander | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 stem | punct |
| 19 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 centuries | nummod |
| 20 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 more | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 stem | advmod |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 stem | aux |
| 23 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wander | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 toil | case |
| 25 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 toil | amod |
| 26 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stem | nmod |
| 27 | Far | Far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 waves | nmod:poss |
| 28 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Far | flat |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Far | case |
| 30 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 toil | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 strait | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 strait | det |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 strait | amod |
| 34 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 strait | compound |
| 35 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 34 sea | punct |
| 36 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stem | conj |
| 37 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 38 18 | punct |
| 38 | 18 | 18 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 36 strait | appos |
| 39 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 38 18 | punct |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 Moyle | case |
| 41 | Moyle | Moyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 18 | nmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 wander | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | shall | ye | fro; here | stem with heavier toil Far's waves and the black sea strait parataxis | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to fro=Destination |
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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