The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 66
Thus as she sang, behold, the sun uprose, And smote a swan that on a wave’s smooth crest Exhausted lay, like one by pitiless foes Trampled, and looking but to death for rest: He also clomb that rock, though weak and worn, With bleeding feet and pinions tempest-torn.
Who acts: Finola, sun · What happens: sing, uprose, smite, exhaust, trample, look · To what, where: swan, pitiless foes, weak bleeding feet
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 (Finola, sun), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 sang | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 behold | punct |
| 6 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 sang | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 uprose | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 sun | det |
| 9 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 uprose | nsubj |
| 10 | uprose | uprose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 smote | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 smote | cc |
| 13 | smote | smite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sang | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 swan | det |
| 15 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 smote | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 crest | nsubj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 crest | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 wave | det |
| 19 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 wave | case |
| 21 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 crest | amod |
| 22 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swan | acl:relcl |
| 23 | Exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 lay | amod |
| 24 | lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crest | appos |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 one | case |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 crest | appos |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 foes | case |
| 29 | pitiless | pitiless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 foes | amod |
| 30 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 one | nmod |
| 31 | Trampled | trample | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 foes | acl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 looking | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 looking | cc |
| 34 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 one | advcl |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 death | cc |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 death | case |
| 37 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looking | conj |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 rest | case |
| 39 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 looking | obl |
| 40 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 43 clomb | punct |
| 41 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 clomb | nsubj |
| 42 | also | also | ADV | _ | 43 clomb | advmod |
| 43 | clomb | clomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 one | appos |
| 44 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 rock | det |
| 45 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 clomb | appos |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 feet | punct |
| 47 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 54 feet | mark |
| 48 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 feet | amod |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 worn | cc |
| 50 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 weak | conj |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 feet | punct |
| 52 | With | with | ADP | _ | 54 feet | case |
| 53 | bleeding | bleed | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 54 feet | amod |
| 54 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 clomb | conj |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 pinions | cc |
| 56 | pinions | pinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 feet | conj |
| 57 | tempest | tempest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 torn | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 tempest | punct |
| 59 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 feet | acl:relcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Finola | thus property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | uprose | past | the sun | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | smite | past | Finola not said here | a swan on a wave's smooth crest a swan on a wave's smooth crest a swan | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus swan=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | exhaust | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | trample | participle | pitiless foes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | gerund | Finola not said here | for rest; death conj | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for rest=Theme | ||||
| 7 | clomb | sun | that rock appos; weak bleeding feet and pinions conj | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | bleed | gerund | vn substance_emission-43.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||||
| 9 | tear | participle | weak bleeding feet and pinions not said here | tempest compound | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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