The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 50
A home for Spirits, not home for man, it seemed; Or Limbo meet for body-waiting Souls-- Of such in Pagan times the poets dreamed-- That stillness which invests the unmoving poles Above it brooded.
Who acts: home, Limbo, stillness · What happens: seem, meet, wait, dream, invest, brood · To what, where: poets, unmoving poles
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 (home, Limbo, stillness), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 home | det |
| 2 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Spirits | case |
| 4 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 home | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 man | punct |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 home | advmod |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 9 man | advmod |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 man | case |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Spirits | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 seemed | nsubj |
| 12 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 meet | punct |
| 14 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 meet | cc |
| 15 | Limbo | Limbo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 meet | nsubj |
| 16 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 seemed | conj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 Souls | case |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waiting | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 body | punct |
| 20 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 Souls | amod |
| 21 | Souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meet | obl |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 27 times | punct |
| 23 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 times | amod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 times | case |
| 26 | Pagan | Pagan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 times | compound |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 meet | obl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 poets | det |
| 29 | poets | poet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 times | conj |
| 30 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 poets | acl |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 stillness | punct |
| 32 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 stillness | det |
| 33 | stillness | stillness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 poets | conj |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 invests | nsubj |
| 35 | invests | invest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 stillness | acl:relcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 poles | det |
| 37 | unmoving | unmoving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 poles | amod |
| 38 | poles | pole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 invests | obj |
| 39 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 41 brooded | mark |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 brooded | nsubj |
| 41 | brooded | brood | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 invests | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | a home for Spirits and man | it nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | present | Limbo | time | for waiting Souls | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | wait | gerund | body compound | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | dream | participle | the poets and that stillness not said here | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | invest | present | that stillness | the unmoving poles | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent pole=Goal | ||||
| 6 | brood | past | Home | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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