The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 38
She sang, and ceased, though long the feathered throat Panted with passion of the unuttered song: At last she spake with voice that seemed remote Like echoed voice of one the tombs among: ‘Depart we hence!
Who acts: music, feathered throat, voice, remote Like · What happens: sing, cease, pant, speak, seem, echo · To what, where: last, voice, we · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (music, feathered throat, voice, remote Like), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sang | nsubj |
| 2 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ceased | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ceased | cc |
| 5 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sang | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Panted | punct |
| 7 | though | though | ADV | _ | 8 long | advmod |
| 8 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 Panted | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 throat | det |
| 10 | feathered | feathered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 throat | amod |
| 11 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Panted | nsubj |
| 12 | Panted | pant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ceased | parataxis |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 passion | case |
| 14 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Panted | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 song | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 song | det |
| 17 | unuttered | unuttered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 song | amod |
| 18 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 passion | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 spake | punct |
| 20 | At | at | ADP | _ | 21 last | case |
| 21 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 spake | obl |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 spake | nsubj |
| 23 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Panted | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 voice | case |
| 25 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 spake | obl |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 seemed | nsubj |
| 27 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 voice | acl:relcl |
| 28 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Like | amod |
| 29 | Like | Like | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 echoed | nsubj |
| 30 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 spake | parataxis |
| 31 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 echoed | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 tombs | case |
| 33 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 tombs | nummod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 tombs | det |
| 35 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 voice | nmod |
| 36 | among | among | ADP | _ | 30 echoed | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
| 38 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 Depart | punct |
| 39 | Depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 spake | conj |
| 40 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 Depart | obj |
| 41 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 39 Depart | advmod |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | music | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | cease | past | music not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | pant | participle | the feathered throat | with passion of the unuttered song; long property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | infinitive | music | last | with voice | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with voice=Co-Agent | |||
| 5 | seem | past | voice | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | echo | past | remote Like | voice of the one tombs | vn sound_existence-47.4 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location voice=Theme | ||||
| 7 | depart | infinitive | music not said here | we | hence property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme we=Initial_Location |
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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