The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 29
The centuries passed: her loud, exultant lay Finola sang, their time of penance done, And ended: ‘Lo, to us it seems a day; Not less the dread nine hundred years are run!
Who acts: centuries, exultant, Finola, it, dread · What happens: pass, lie, sing, do, end, seem · To what, where: less hundred years
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 (centuries, exultant, Finola, it), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 centuries | det |
| 2 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 loud | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 passed | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | exultant | exultant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 10 | Finola | Finola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sang | nsubj |
| 11 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 time | nmod:poss |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lay | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 penance | case |
| 16 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 lay | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ended | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ended | cc |
| 20 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 passed | parataxis |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 seems | punct |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 seems | punct |
| 23 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 28 seems | discourse |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Lo | punct |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 us | case |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 Lo | obl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 seems | nsubj |
| 28 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 ended | conj |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 seems | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 run | punct |
| 32 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 less | advmod |
| 33 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 years | amod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 dread | det |
| 35 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 years | nsubj |
| 36 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 hundred | compound |
| 37 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 38 years | nummod |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 run | nsubj |
| 39 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 run | aux:pass |
| 40 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 passed | conj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the centuries | loud property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | exultant | time | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | Finola | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | do | participle | exultant not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | end | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | seem | present | it | day | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | year | the dread | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | run | present · passive | less hundred years | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory |
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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