The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 21
Straight on the King Druidic insight fell; And mirrored in his mind as cloud in lake His daughter’s crime, distinct and visible, Before him stood.
Who acts: throng, daughter · What happens: fall, mirror, stand, mind, incriminate · To what, where: King Druidic insight, crime, mind
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 (throng, daughter), 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 | Straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 fell | advmod |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 insight | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 insight | det |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 insight | compound |
| 5 | Druidic | druidic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 insight | amod |
| 6 | insight | insight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fell | obl |
| 7 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 mirrored | punct |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 mirrored | cc |
| 10 | mirrored | mirror | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fell | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 mind | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mind | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mirrored | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 cloud | case |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mirrored | obl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cloud | nmod |
| 18 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 crime | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 21 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 mirrored | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 distinct | punct |
| 23 | distinct | distinct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 crime | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 visible | cc |
| 25 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 distinct | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 stood | punct |
| 27 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 29 stood | mark |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 stood | nsubj |
| 29 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 mirrored | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the King Druidic insight | straight property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on insight=Location | ||||
| 2 | mirror | past | throng's daughter's crime | throng's mind | as cloud in lake | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stand | past | throng | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | mind | throng | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | incriminate | throng's daughter | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=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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