The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 6
Shoreward the creatures moved; And when he heard them speak with human tongue That love he felt grew tenderer and more strong.
Who acts: Shoreward, love · What happens: move, hear, speak, feel, grow · To what, where: creatures, love, tenderer · 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 (Shoreward, love), 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 | Shoreward | shoreward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 creatures | det |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 6 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 speak | cc |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | advcl |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | obj |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 moved | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 tongue | case |
| 13 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tongue | amod |
| 14 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 speak | obl |
| 15 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 love | det |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 love | acl:relcl |
| 19 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 speak | conj |
| 20 | tenderer | tenderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 grew | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 strong | cc |
| 22 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 strong | advmod |
| 23 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tenderer | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | Shoreward | the creatures nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | Shoreward | creatures = creature | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | infinitive | Shoreward not said here | with human tongue | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with tongue=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | feel | past | love | that love not said here | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | that love | tenderer | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tenderer=Theme |
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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