The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 129
We must not confound the ‘savage’ state which has fallen beneath the dominion of blind sense, with the ‘barbaric’ which has not yet ascended into the clearer day, but which in its twilight has a gleam of coming morn.
Who acts: We, savage state, gleam · What happens: not confound, fall, not ascend, have, come · To what, where: savage state, dominion, barbaric, gleam, twilight, morn
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, savage state, gleam), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 confound | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 confound | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 confound | advmod |
| 4 | confound | confound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 state | det |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 savage | punct |
| 7 | savage | savage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | compound |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 savage | punct |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confound | obj |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 fallen | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 fallen | aux |
| 12 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 state | acl:relcl |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 dominion | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 dominion | det |
| 15 | dominion | dominion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fallen | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 sense | case |
| 17 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sense | amod |
| 18 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dominion | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 barbaric | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 barbaric | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 barbaric | det |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 barbaric | punct |
| 23 | barbaric | barbaric | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confound | parataxis |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 barbaric | punct |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 ascended | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 ascended | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 ascended | advmod |
| 28 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 29 ascended | advmod |
| 29 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 barbaric | parataxis |
| 30 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 day | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 day | det |
| 32 | clearer | clear | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 day | amod |
| 33 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 ascended | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 has | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 has | cc |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 has | obj |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 twilight | case |
| 38 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 twilight | nmod:poss |
| 39 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 has | obl |
| 40 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confound | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 gleam | det |
| 42 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 has | obj |
| 43 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 44 coming | mark |
| 44 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 42 gleam | acl |
| 45 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 coming | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not confound | must | We | the savage state | the barbaric parataxis | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus state=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | fall | present · perfect | the savage state | the dominion of blind sense | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme beneath dominion=Location | ||||
| 3 | not ascend | present · perfect · passive | the barbaric | yet; day | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | have | present | a gleam | nature's twilight | which obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | come | gerund | a gleam not said here | morn | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morn=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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