The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 21
So thus those babes, in God’s predestined hour, Through help of Him, the Lord of Life and Death, Inly fulfilled with light and prophet power, Believed; and perfect made their Act of Faith; And thenceforth all things, both in shade and shine, To them came softly and with touch benign.
Who acts: perfect, babes · What happens: predestine, fulfil, believe, make, come, help · To what, where: babes, light, Act, God
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 (perfect, babes), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 55 came | advmod |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 babes | advmod |
| 3 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 babes | det |
| 4 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 55 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hour | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hour | case |
| 7 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 hour | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 God | case |
| 9 | predestined | predestine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hour | amod |
| 10 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 babes | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 help | punct |
| 12 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 13 help | case |
| 13 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 babes | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Him | case |
| 15 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 help | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Lord | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Lord | det |
| 18 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 babes | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Life | case |
| 20 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lord | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Death | cc |
| 22 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Lord | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fulfilled | punct |
| 24 | Inly | inly | ADV | _ | 25 fulfilled | advmod |
| 25 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 babes | acl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 light | case |
| 27 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fulfilled | obl |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 power | cc |
| 29 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 power | compound |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 light | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Believed | punct |
| 32 | Believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 light | acl |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 made | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 made | cc |
| 35 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 made | nsubj |
| 36 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 babes | conj |
| 37 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 Act | nmod:poss |
| 38 | Act | Act | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 made | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 Faith | case |
| 40 | Faith | Faith | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 Act | nmod |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 things | punct |
| 42 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 things | cc |
| 43 | thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 45 things | advmod |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 45 things | det |
| 45 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 made | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 shade | punct |
| 47 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 49 shade | cc:preconj |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 shade | case |
| 49 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 things | appos |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 shine | cc |
| 51 | shine | shine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 shade | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 them | punct |
| 53 | To | to | ADP | _ | 54 them | case |
| 54 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 made | obl |
| 55 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 56 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 55 came | advmod |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 60 benign | cc |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 59 touch | case |
| 59 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 benign | obl |
| 60 | benign | benign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 came | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 55 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | predestine | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | fulfil | participle | that babes and God's predestined hour and help of God not said here | with light and prophet power; inly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | believe | participle | light and prophet power not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | make | past | perfect | babes's Act of Faith | babes = babe | all things obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset act=Product | ||
| 5 | come | past | that babes and God's predestined hour and help of God | softly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | help | God | nom help «act transitive»: of=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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