The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 1
Straightway from that broad water’s central stream Was heard a clang of pinions and swift feet-- Unchanged at heart those babes had caught that gleam; Instant from far had rushed, their sire to greet Spangling the flood with silver spray; and ere That sire had reached the margin they were there.
Who acts: babes · What happens: hear, swift, catch, rush, greet, spangle · To what, where: Straightway, feet, babes, sire, flood, margin
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babes), 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 | Straightway | straightway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stream | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 water | det |
| 4 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 water | amod |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stream | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 water | case |
| 7 | central | central | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stream | amod |
| 8 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Straightway | nmod |
| 9 | Was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | aux:pass |
| 10 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 clang | det |
| 12 | clang | clang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heard | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 pinions | case |
| 14 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 clang | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 swift | cc |
| 16 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 17 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 swift | obj |
| 18 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 Unchanged | punct |
| 19 | Unchanged | unchanged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 swift | parataxis |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 heart | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Unchanged | obl |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 babes | det |
| 23 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 caught | aux |
| 25 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 Unchanged | conj |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 gleam | det |
| 27 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 caught | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 Instant | punct |
| 29 | Instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 heard | parataxis |
| 30 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 33 rushed | mark |
| 31 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 rushed | advmod |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 rushed | aux |
| 33 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 Instant | advcl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sire | punct |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 sire | nmod:poss |
| 36 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rushed | obl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 greet | mark |
| 38 | greet | greet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 sire | acl |
| 39 | Spangling | spangle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 greet | xcomp |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 flood | det |
| 41 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Spangling | obj |
| 42 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 spray | case |
| 43 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 spray | compound |
| 44 | spray | spray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Spangling | obl |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 ere | punct |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 ere | cc |
| 47 | ere | ere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heard | conj |
| 48 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 sire | det |
| 49 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 reached | aux |
| 51 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 ere | ccomp |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 margin | det |
| 53 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 reached | obj |
| 54 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 there | nsubj |
| 55 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 there | cop |
| 56 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 margin | acl:relcl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · passive | Straightway from that broad water's central stream | a clang of pinions obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | swift | present | feet | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | catch | past · perfect · passive | that babes | that gleam obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary gleam=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rush | past · perfect | babes's sire | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | greet speech: greet | to-infinitive | babes's sire not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | spangle | gerund | the flood | with silver spray | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | ere | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | reach | past · perfect · passive | that sire | the margin obj | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary margin=Theme | ||||
| 9 | is | past | babes = babe | the margin not said here | there property | tree rules | |||
| 10 | clang | pinions | nom clang «event transitive»: of=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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