The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 57
Three days against the northern blast on-flying To Fate obedient and the Will Divine, They reached, what time the crimson eve was lying On Alba’s isles, and ocean’s utmost line, That huge sea-strait whose racing eddies boil ’Twixt Erin and the cloud-girt headland Moyle.
Who acts: northern blast, lake, crimson eve, That, racing eddies · What happens: fly, fate, divine, reach, lie, strait · To what, where: obedient, utmost line, isles, Twixt Erin, headland
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 (northern blast, lake, crimson eve, That), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 days | nummod |
| 2 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 reached | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | against | against | ADP | _ | 6 blast | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 blast | det |
| 5 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 blast | amod |
| 6 | blast | blast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 days | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 flying | mark |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 on | punct |
| 9 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 blast | acl |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 11 Fate | case |
| 11 | Fate | fate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 flying | xcomp |
| 12 | obedient | obedient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Fate | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Divine | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Divine | det |
| 15 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 Divine | aux |
| 16 | Divine | divine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 Fate | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
| 18 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lying | punct |
| 21 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eve | det |
| 24 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eve | compound |
| 25 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lying | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lying | aux |
| 27 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 reached | advcl |
| 28 | On | on | ADP | _ | 31 isles | case |
| 29 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 isles | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Alba | case |
| 31 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lying | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 line | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 line | cc |
| 34 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 line | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 ocean | case |
| 36 | utmost | utmost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 line | amod |
| 37 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 strait | punct |
| 39 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 strait | nsubj |
| 40 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 strait | amod |
| 41 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 strait | compound |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 sea | punct |
| 43 | strait | strait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 line | appos |
| 44 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 46 eddies | nmod:poss |
| 45 | racing | racing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 eddies | compound |
| 46 | eddies | eddy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 boil | nsubj |
| 47 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 strait | acl:relcl |
| 48 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 50 Erin | punct |
| 49 | Twixt | Twixt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 Erin | compound |
| 50 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 boil | obj |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 girt | cc |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 girt | det |
| 53 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 girt | compound |
| 54 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 53 cloud | punct |
| 55 | girt | girt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 50 Erin | conj |
| 56 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 girt | obj |
| 57 | Moyle | Moyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 headland | appos |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | the northern blast not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fate | infinitive | the northern blast not said here | obedient | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | divine | future | the northern blast not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | lake | ocean's utmost line | day | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | lie | past · progressive | the crimson eve | Alba's isles | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on isle=Location | |||
| 6 | strait | That | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | boil | present | racing eddies | Twixt Erin | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent erin=Patient | ||||
| 8 | girt | infinitive | racing eddies not said here | headland | cloud compound | 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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