The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 100
Gracious as in the old days, that king rehearsed The Tale so long desired, though many an age, And that grey empire of departed Souls, Had quelled at last the strong ones of that strain, Record half jest, half earnest.
Who acts: Gracious old days · What happens: rehearse, desire, depart, quell · To what, where: Tale, many age, grey empire
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gracious old days), 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 | Gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 2 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 days | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 days | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 days | amod |
| 6 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 rehearsed | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 days | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rehearsed | nsubj |
| 10 | rehearsed | rehearse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tale | det |
| 12 | Tale | Tale | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 rehearsed | obj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 desired | advmod |
| 15 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rehearsed | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 age | punct |
| 17 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 20 age | mark |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 age | amod |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 age | det |
| 20 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 desired | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 quelled | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 quelled | cc |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 empire | det |
| 24 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 empire | amod |
| 25 | empire | empire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 quelled | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Souls | case |
| 27 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 Souls | amod |
| 28 | Souls | Soul | PROPN | Number=Plur | 25 empire | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 empire | punct |
| 30 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 quelled | aux |
| 31 | quelled | quell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 rehearsed | conj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 ones | case |
| 33 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ones | amod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ones | det |
| 35 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ones | amod |
| 36 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 quelled | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 strain | case |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 strain | det |
| 39 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 ones | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 jest | punct |
| 41 | Record | record | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 jest | compound |
| 42 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 43 jest | compound |
| 43 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strain | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 half | punct |
| 45 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 39 strain | conj |
| 46 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 45 half | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rehearsed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rehearse | past | the Gracious old days | the Tale | that king nsubj | vn rehearse-26.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | |||
| 2 | desire | participle | the Gracious old days not said here | a many age | long property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | depart | participle | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | quell | past · perfect · passive | that grey empire of departed Souls | at the last strong ones of that strain and Record half jest and half earnest | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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