The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 25
And still, at evening’s close, They dreamed of those rich bowers and alleys green Wherein with Lir their childish sports had been.
Who acts: odours, childish sports · What happens: dream, be, sport · To what, where: close
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 (odours, childish sports), 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 | _ | 7 close | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 7 close | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 close | case |
| 5 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 close | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 evening | case |
| 7 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dreamed | punct |
| 9 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 dreamed | nsubj |
| 10 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 close | acl:relcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 bowers | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 bowers | det |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bowers | amod |
| 14 | bowers | bower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dreamed | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 alleys | cc |
| 16 | alleys | alley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bowers | conj |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bowers | amod |
| 18 | Wherein | wherein | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 been | advmod |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 Lir | case |
| 20 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 been | obl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 sports | nmod:poss |
| 22 | childish | childish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sports | amod |
| 23 | sports | sport | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 been | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 been | aux |
| 25 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 dreamed | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 close | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream | past | odours = odour | evening's close not said here | of that rich bowers and alleys | vn cognize-85 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent close=Topic | |||
| 2 | be | past · perfect | odours's childish sports | with Lir; wherein property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sport | odours = odour | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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