The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 60
There, day by day, the sun more early set; And through the hollows of the high-ridged sea Which foamed around their rocky cabinet The whirlwinds beat them more remorselessly: And winter followed soon: and ofttimes storms Shrouded for weeks the mountains’ frowning forms.
Who acts: sun, hollows, winter, mountains · What happens: set, ridge, foam, beat, follow, shroud · To what, where: whirlwinds, rocky cabinet, ofttimes storms
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, hollows, winter, mountains), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 31 beat | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 day | case |
| 5 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 set | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 sun | det |
| 8 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 set | nsubj |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 early | advmod |
| 10 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 set | amod |
| 11 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 beat | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 hollows | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 hollows | cc |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 hollows | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hollows | det |
| 16 | hollows | hollow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 beat | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sea | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ridged | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 high | punct |
| 21 | ridged | ridge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 sea | amod |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hollows | nmod |
| 23 | Which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 foamed | nsubj |
| 24 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 hollows | acl:relcl |
| 25 | around | around | ADP | _ | 28 cabinet | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 cabinet | nmod:poss |
| 27 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 cabinet | amod |
| 28 | cabinet | cabinet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foamed | obl |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 whirlwinds | det |
| 30 | whirlwinds | whirlwind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 foamed | obj |
| 31 | beat | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 beat | obj |
| 33 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 34 remorselessly | advmod |
| 34 | remorselessly | remorselessly | ADV | _ | 31 beat | advmod |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 followed | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 followed | cc |
| 37 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 followed | nsubj |
| 38 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 beat | conj |
| 39 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 followed | advmod |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 storms | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 storms | cc |
| 42 | ofttimes | ofttime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 storms | compound |
| 43 | storms | storm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 beat | obl |
| 44 | Shrouded | shroud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 storms | acl |
| 45 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 weeks | case |
| 46 | weeks | week | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Shrouded | obl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 mountains | det |
| 48 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 forms | nmod:poss |
| 49 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 48 mountains | case |
| 50 | frowning | frown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 forms | amod |
| 51 | forms | form | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 Shrouded | obl:agent |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 beat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | the sun | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ridge | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | foam | past | the hollows of the ridged sea | the whirlwinds | hollows's rocky cabinet | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location whirlwind=Theme | |||
| 4 | beat | present | the hollows of the ridged sea | whirlwinds = whirlwind | there | day | ofttimes storms obl; remorselessly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme | |
| 5 | follow | past | winter | soon property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shroud | participle | ofttimes storms not said here | week | the mountains's frowning forms obl:agent | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||
| 7 | frown | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | form | the mountains | nom form «communication 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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