The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 42
And when, far travelling through the fields of ether, The stars successive filled their thrones of light, Still to that heaven the glimmering lake beneath her Gave meet response, with music answering light; For still, wherever sailed that mystic four, With minstrelsy divine that lake ran o’er.
Who acts: stars, music, lake · What happens: travel, fill, answer, sail, run · To what, where: fields, thrones, light, minstrelsy divine
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 (stars, music, lake), 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 | _ | 2 when | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 travelling | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelling | punct |
| 4 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 travelling | advmod |
| 5 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 filled | advcl |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 fields | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fields | det |
| 8 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 travelling | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 ether | case |
| 10 | ether | ether | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fields | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 travelling | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stars | det |
| 13 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | nsubj |
| 14 | successive | successive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stars | amod |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thrones | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 filled | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thrones | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lake | punct |
| 21 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 27 lake | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heaven | case |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 heaven | det |
| 24 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lake | obl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 lake | det |
| 26 | glimmering | glimmering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lake | compound |
| 27 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obl |
| 28 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 32 response | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 response | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Gave | gave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 response | amod |
| 31 | meet | meet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 response | compound |
| 32 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 lake | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 music | punct |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 music | case |
| 35 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 response | appos |
| 36 | answering | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 music | acl |
| 37 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 answering | obj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 sailed | punct |
| 39 | For | for | ADP | _ | 40 still | case |
| 40 | still | still | ADV | _ | 43 sailed | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 sailed | punct |
| 42 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 43 sailed | advmod |
| 43 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 filled | conj |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 four | mark |
| 45 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 four | amod |
| 46 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 sailed | advcl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 divine | punct |
| 48 | With | with | ADP | _ | 50 divine | case |
| 49 | minstrelsy | minstrelsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 divine | compound |
| 50 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sailed | obl |
| 51 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 53 ran | obj |
| 52 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 ran | nsubj |
| 53 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 divine | acl:relcl |
| 54 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 ran | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | the stars not said here | the fields of ether | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | fill | past | the stars | stars's thrones of light | the glimmering lake to that heaven beneath heaven's Gave meet response obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent throne=Patient | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | gerund | music not said here | light | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sail | past | the stars not said here | with minstrelsy divine; mystic four advcl; wherever property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | run | past | lake | minstrelsy divine | o’er obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary o'er=Product |
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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