The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 52
Upon its breast perpetual light there lay, Undazzling beam, and uncreated light; For lake and wood the sunshine drank all day, And breathed it softly forth to cheer the night, A silver twilight, pure from cloud or taint, Like aureole round the forehead of a saint.
Who acts: sunshine, Home · What happens: lie, undazzl, drink, breathe, cheer, light · To what, where: uncreated light, perpetual light, beam, Home
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 (sunshine, Home), 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 | Upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 light | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 light | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perpetual | compound |
| 4 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 light | compound |
| 5 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 lay | advmod |
| 7 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Undazzling | punct |
| 9 | Undazzling | undazzl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 lay | advcl |
| 10 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Undazzling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 light | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 light | cc |
| 13 | uncreated | uncreated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 light | amod |
| 14 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lay | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 drank | punct |
| 16 | For | for | ADP | _ | 17 lake | case |
| 17 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drank | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wood | cc |
| 19 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lake | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sunshine | det |
| 21 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drank | nsubj |
| 22 | drank | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lay | conj |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 day | det |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 drank | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 breathed | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 breathed | cc |
| 27 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 drank | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 breathed | obj |
| 29 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 30 forth | advmod |
| 30 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 breathed | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cheer | mark |
| 32 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 breathed | advcl |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 night | det |
| 34 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cheer | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 twilight | punct |
| 36 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 twilight | det |
| 37 | silver | silver | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 twilight | amod |
| 38 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 night | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 pure | punct |
| 40 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 twilight | amod |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 42 cloud | case |
| 42 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 pure | obl |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 44 taint | cc |
| 44 | taint | taint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cloud | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 aureole | punct |
| 46 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 47 aureole | case |
| 47 | aureole | aureole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 cloud | conj |
| 48 | round | round | ADP | _ | 50 forehead | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 forehead | det |
| 50 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 aureole | nmod |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 saint | case |
| 52 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 53 saint | det |
| 53 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 forehead | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | uncreated light | Home's perpetual light; there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon light=Location | ||||
| 2 | undazzl | gerund | beam | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drink | past | the sunshine | day | for lake and wood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | breathe | past | the sunshine not said here | Home | forth property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 5 | cheer | to-infinitive | the sunshine not said here | night | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | light | Home | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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