The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 75
And when at last the full midsummer panted Upon the austere main, and high-peaked isles, And hills that, like some elfin land enchanted, Now charmed, now mocked the eye with phantom smiles, More far round Alba’s shores the swans made way To Islay’s beach, and cloud-loved Colonsay.
Who acts: Alba, swans · What happens: pant, peak, enchant, charm, mock, shore · To what, where: hills, last full midsummer, elfin land, eye, way, Colonsay
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 (Alba, swans), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 panted | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 panted | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 midsummer | case |
| 4 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 midsummer | amod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 midsummer | det |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 midsummer | amod |
| 7 | midsummer | midsummer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 panted | obl |
| 8 | panted | pant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 12 main | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 main | det |
| 11 | austere | austere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 main | amod |
| 12 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 panted | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 isles | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 isles | cc |
| 15 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 peaked | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 high | punct |
| 17 | peaked | peak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 isles | amod |
| 18 | isles | isle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 main | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hills | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hills | cc |
| 21 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 panted | obl |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 land | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 land | punct |
| 24 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 land | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 land | det |
| 26 | elfin | elfin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 land | amod |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hills | nmod |
| 28 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 land | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 charmed | punct |
| 30 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 charmed | advmod |
| 31 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 enchanted | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mocked | punct |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 mocked | advmod |
| 34 | mocked | mock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 charmed | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 eye | det |
| 36 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 mocked | obj |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 smiles | case |
| 38 | phantom | phantom | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 smiles | amod |
| 39 | smiles | smile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 mocked | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 More | punct |
| 41 | More | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 far | advmod |
| 42 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 27 land | advmod |
| 43 | round | round | ADP | _ | 46 shores | mark |
| 44 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 shores | nsubj |
| 45 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 44 Alba | case |
| 46 | shores | shore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 far | advcl |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 swans | det |
| 48 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 made | nsubj |
| 49 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 shores | ccomp |
| 50 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 made | obj |
| 51 | To | to | ADP | _ | 54 beach | case |
| 52 | Islay | Islay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 beach | nmod:poss |
| 53 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 52 Islay | case |
| 54 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 made | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 loved | punct |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 59 loved | cc |
| 57 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 loved | compound |
| 58 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 57 cloud | punct |
| 59 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 made | conj |
| 60 | Colonsay | Colonsay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 59 loved | obj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 panted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pant | participle | hills like some elfin land that | the last full midsummer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | peak | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | enchant | participle | some elfin land that not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | charm | participle | now | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | mock | participle | the eye | now | with phantom smiles | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 6 | shore | present | Alba | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | make | past | the swans | way | to Islay's beach | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product | |||
| 8 | love | participle | the swans not said here | Colonsay | cloud compound | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer colonsay=Stimulus |
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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