The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 29
As when, on autumn eve from hill or cape That slants into gray wastes of western sea, The sun long set, some shepherd stares agape At cloud that seems through endless space to flee On raven pinions down the moaning wind, Thus on that Fury stared they, well-nigh blind.
Who acts: sun, shepherd, cloud, Fury · What happens: set, stare, seem, flee · To what, where: agape, cloud, endless space, raven pinions, pinions
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 (sun, shepherd, cloud, Fury), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 2 when | mark |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eve | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 eve | case |
| 5 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eve | compound |
| 6 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 when | appos |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eve | nmod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 cape | cc |
| 10 | cape | cape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hill | conj |
| 11 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 slants | det |
| 12 | slants | slant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eve | nmod |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 wastes | case |
| 14 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wastes | amod |
| 15 | wastes | waste | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 slants | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sea | case |
| 17 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sea | amod |
| 18 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wastes | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sun | det |
| 21 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 set | nsubj |
| 22 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 set | amod |
| 23 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slants | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stares | punct |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 shepherd | det |
| 26 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stares | nsubj |
| 27 | stares | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slants | parataxis |
| 28 | agape | agape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stares | obj |
| 29 | At | at | ADP | _ | 30 cloud | case |
| 30 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stares | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 seems | nsubj |
| 32 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 cloud | acl:relcl |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 space | case |
| 34 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 space | amod |
| 35 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 seems | obl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 flee | mark |
| 37 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 seems | xcomp |
| 38 | On | on | ADP | _ | 40 pinions | case |
| 39 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pinions | compound |
| 40 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 flee | obl |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 44 wind | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 wind | det |
| 43 | moaning | moaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 wind | compound |
| 44 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 flee | obl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 stared | punct |
| 46 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 50 stared | advmod |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 Thus | fixed |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 50 stared | mark |
| 49 | Fury | Fury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 stared | nsubj |
| 50 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 stares | parataxis |
| 51 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 stared | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 blind | punct |
| 53 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 56 blind | advmod |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 well | punct |
| 55 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 56 blind | advmod |
| 56 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 stared | parataxis |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 when | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | the sun | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | stare | present | some shepherd | agape | cloud | tree rules | |||
| 3 | seem | present | cloud | endless space | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | flee | to-infinitive | cloud not said here | raven pinions | down the moaning wind | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down wind=Initial_Location | |||
| 5 | stare | past | Fury | pinions = pinion | thus property | tree rules |
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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