The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 74

Cliffs deep-scarred To milder airs gave welcome festively Upon their iron breasts and foreheads hard, And, while about their feet the ripples played, Cast o’er the glaring deep a friendlier shade.

Who acts: Cliffs, ripples · What happens: scar, give, play · To what, where: Cliffs, welcome iron breasts, Cast

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 (Cliffs, ripples), 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	Cliffs	cliff	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	nsubj
2	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cliffs	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 deep	punct
4	scarred	scar	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cliffs	acl
5	To	to	ADP	_	7 airs	case
6	milder	mild	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 airs	amod
7	airs	air	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scarred	obl
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	welcome	welcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 breasts	amod
10	festively	festively	ADV	_	14 breasts	advmod
11	Upon	upon	ADP	_	14 breasts	case
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 breasts	nmod:poss
13	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 breasts	compound
14	breasts	breast	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 foreheads	cc
16	foreheads	forehead	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 breasts	conj
17	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 gave	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 played	punct
19	And	and	CCONJ	_	27 played	cc
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 played	punct
21	while	while	SCONJ	_	27 played	mark
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 feet	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 feet	nmod:poss
24	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 played	obl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ripples	det
26	ripples	ripple	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 played	nsubj
27	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	parataxis
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 Cast	punct
29	Cast	Cast	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 played	obj
30	o’er	o'er	SCONJ	_	33 deep	mark
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 deep	det
32	glaring	glaring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 deep	amod
33	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 played	conj
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 shade	det
35	friendlier	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	36 shade	amod
36	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 deep	nsubj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	scar	participle		Cliffs not said here	to milder airs	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	give	past	Cliffs	cliffs's welcome iron breasts and foreheads	hard property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breast=Theme
3	play	past	the ripples	Cast	about cliffs's feet	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cast=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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/9/74/

🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 74