The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 77
Round Erin’s northern coasts they drifted on From Rathlin isle to Fanad’s beetling crest, And where, in frowning sunset steeped, forth shone The ‘Bloody Foreland,’ gazing t’ward the west; Yet still with duteous hearts to Moyle returned-- To love their place of penance they had learned.
Who acts: growths, sunset, duteous hearts · What happens: drift, frown, steep, shine, gaze, return · To what, where: Rathlin isle, Bloody Foreland, west, place, penance
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 (growths, sunset, duteous hearts), 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 | Round | round | ADP | _ | 5 coasts | case |
| 2 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 coasts | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Erin | case |
| 4 | northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 coasts | amod |
| 5 | coasts | coast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 drifted | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 drifted | nsubj |
| 7 | drifted | drift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 isle | case |
| 9 | From | from | ADP | _ | 11 isle | case |
| 10 | Rathlin | Rathlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 isle | compound |
| 11 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 drifted | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 crest | case |
| 13 | Fanad | Fanad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 crest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 Fanad | case |
| 15 | beetling | beetling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 crest | compound |
| 16 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 isle | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 where | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 where | cc |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 drifted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 frowning | punct |
| 21 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 22 frowning | mark |
| 22 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 drifted | advcl |
| 23 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 steeped | nsubj |
| 24 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 frowning | ccomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 shone | punct |
| 26 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 shone | advmod |
| 27 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drifted | conj |
| 28 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Foreland | det |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 Foreland | punct |
| 30 | Bloody | bloody | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 Foreland | amod |
| 31 | Foreland | Foreland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 shone | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 gazing | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 gazing | punct |
| 34 | gazing | gaze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 shone | advcl |
| 35 | t’ward | t'ward | ADV | _ | 37 west | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 west | det |
| 37 | west | west | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gazing | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 hearts | punct |
| 39 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 43 hearts | cc |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 43 hearts | advmod |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 hearts | case |
| 42 | duteous | duteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 hearts | amod |
| 43 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 returned | nsubj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Moyle | case |
| 45 | Moyle | Moyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 hearts | nmod |
| 46 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 drifted | conj |
| 47 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 49 love | punct |
| 48 | To | to | PART | _ | 49 love | mark |
| 49 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 returned | advcl |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 place | nmod:poss |
| 51 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 love | obj |
| 52 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 penance | case |
| 53 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 place | nmod |
| 54 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 learned | nsubj |
| 55 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 learned | aux |
| 56 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 53 penance | acl:relcl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 drifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drift | past | growths = growth | Rathlin isle to Fanad's beetling crest | round Erin's northern coasts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme round coast=Source on isle=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | frown | gerund | growths = growth not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | steep | past | sunset | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | shine | past | growths = growth not said here | the Bloody Foreland | forth property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent foreland=Theme | |||
| 5 | gaze | gerund | growths = growth not said here | the west | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | return | past | duteous hearts to Moyle | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | love | to-infinitive | duteous hearts to Moyle not said here | growths's place of penance | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | learn | past · perfect | growths = growth | penance not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent penance=Topic |
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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