The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 37
Behold, the place of pleasaunce is forlorn, And emptied of fair women and brave men; The wine-cup now is dry; the music fled: Now know we that our father, Lir, is dead!’
Who acts: place, wine cup, music, father · What happens: be, empty, flee, know · To what, where: we
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 (place, wine cup, music, father), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 8 forlorn | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Behold | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 place | det |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 forlorn | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 pleasaunce | case |
| 6 | pleasaunce | pleasaunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 place | nmod |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 forlorn | cop |
| 8 | forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 emptied | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 emptied | cc |
| 11 | emptied | empty | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forlorn | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 women | case |
| 13 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 women | amod |
| 14 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 emptied | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 men | cc |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 women | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 dry | punct |
| 19 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 cup | det |
| 20 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cup | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 wine | punct |
| 22 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dry | nsubj |
| 23 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 dry | advmod |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 dry | cop |
| 25 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 forlorn | conj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 fled | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 music | det |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fled | nsubj |
| 29 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 forlorn | parataxis |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 31 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 know | advmod |
| 32 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 fled | ccomp |
| 33 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 know | obj |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 dead | mark |
| 35 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 father | nmod:poss |
| 36 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dead | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 Lir | punct |
| 38 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 father | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 father | punct |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 dead | cop |
| 41 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 know | advcl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 32 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the place of pleasaunce | forlorn property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | empty | past | of fair women and brave men | vn clear-10.3-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Theme of woman=Source | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the wine cup | now | dry property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | flee | past | the music | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | know | infinitive | the music not said here | we | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer we=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | is | present | our father | dead property | tree rules |
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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