The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 49
Around that lake with oldest oakwoods shaded Were all things that to eye are witching most, Green slopes, dew drenched, and gray rocks ivy-braided; Yet speechless was the region as a ghost: No whisper shook those woods; no tendril stirred; Nor e’er beside the cave was ripple heard.
Who acts: shaded things, whisper, Nor e’er · What happens: shade, witch, drench, braid, be, shake · To what, where: Green slopes, dew, gray rocks, region, lake, woods
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 (shaded things, whisper, Nor e’er), 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 | Around | around | ADP | _ | 3 lake | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 lake | det |
| 3 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 region | obl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 oakwoods | case |
| 5 | oldest | old | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 oakwoods | amod |
| 6 | oakwoods | oakwood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lake | nmod |
| 7 | shaded | shade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 things | amod |
| 8 | Were | were | ADV | _ | 10 things | advmod |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 things | det |
| 10 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oakwoods | conj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 witching | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 witching | mark |
| 13 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 witching | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 witching | aux |
| 15 | witching | witch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 things | acl:relcl |
| 16 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 witching | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slopes | punct |
| 18 | Green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 slopes | amod |
| 19 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 witching | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dew | punct |
| 21 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slopes | conj |
| 22 | drenched | drench | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 dew | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 braided | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 braided | cc |
| 25 | gray | gray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 rocks | amod |
| 26 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 braided | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 braided | compound |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 ivy | punct |
| 29 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 witching | conj |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 speechless | punct |
| 31 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 32 speechless | cc |
| 32 | speechless | speechless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lake | conj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 region | cop |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 region | det |
| 35 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 36 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 ghost | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 ghost | det |
| 38 | ghost | ghost | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 region | nmod |
| 39 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 shook | punct |
| 40 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 whisper | det |
| 41 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 shook | nsubj |
| 42 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 region | conj |
| 43 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 44 woods | det |
| 44 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 shook | obj |
| 45 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 tendril | punct |
| 46 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 47 tendril | det |
| 47 | tendril | tendril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 region | conj |
| 48 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 tendril | acl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 e’er | punct |
| 50 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 51 e’er | compound |
| 51 | e’er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tendril | conj |
| 52 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 57 heard | mark |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 cave | det |
| 54 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 heard | nsubj:pass |
| 55 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 57 heard | aux:pass |
| 56 | ripple | ripple | ADV | _ | 57 heard | advmod |
| 57 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 51 e’er | acl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 region | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shade | participle | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | witch | present · progressive | all shaded things | Green slopes and dew | eye nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | drench | participle | dew not said here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | braid | participle · passive | gray rocks | ivy compound | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is a | past | the region and no tendril and Nor e’er | that lake with oldest oakwoods and all shaded things | as a ghost; no tendril and Nor e’er conj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | shake | past | no whisper | that woods | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent wood=Patient | ||||
| 7 | stir | participle | no tendril and Nor e’er not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 8 | hear | past · passive | Nor e’er not said here | the cave | ripple property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
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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