The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 61
On that green marge there rose an Altar-stone: Before it, robed in white, with tonsured head, Stood up the kingly Tailkenn all alone: Not far behind, in reverence, not in dread, With low bent brows a princely senate knelt, Girding that altar as with golden belt.
Who acts: low bent brows · What happens: rise, robe, tonsure, stand up, bend, kneel · To what, where: Altar stone, green marge, marge, white, altar
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 (low bent brows), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 marge | case |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 marge | det |
| 3 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 marge | amod |
| 4 | marge | marge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rose | advmod |
| 6 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stone | det |
| 8 | Altar | Altar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 stone | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 Altar | punct |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rose | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 robed | punct |
| 12 | Before | before | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 robed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 robed | punct |
| 15 | robed | robe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 rose | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 white | case |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 robed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 head | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 head | case |
| 20 | tonsured | tonsure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 head | amod |
| 21 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 robed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Stood | punct |
| 23 | Stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rose | conj |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 Stood | compound:prt |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tailkenn | det |
| 26 | kingly | kingly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Tailkenn | amod |
| 27 | Tailkenn | Tailkenn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Stood | parataxis |
| 28 | all | all | ADV | _ | 29 alone | advmod |
| 29 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 23 Stood | advmod |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 behind | punct |
| 31 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 behind | advmod |
| 32 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 behind | advmod |
| 33 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 23 Stood | advmod |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 reverence | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 reverence | case |
| 36 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Stood | parataxis |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 dread | punct |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 dread | advmod |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 dread | case |
| 40 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 reverence | conj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 knelt | punct |
| 42 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 49 knelt | mark |
| 43 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 brows | amod |
| 44 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 brows | amod |
| 45 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 knelt | nsubj |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 senate | det |
| 47 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 senate | amod |
| 48 | senate | senate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 knelt | nsubj |
| 49 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Stood | parataxis |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Girding | punct |
| 51 | Girding | gird | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 knelt | advcl |
| 52 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 altar | det |
| 53 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Girding | obj |
| 54 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 belt | case |
| 55 | with | with | ADP | _ | 57 belt | case |
| 56 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 belt | amod |
| 57 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 Girding | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | a Altar stone | that green marge; there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stone=Theme | ||||
| 2 | robe | participle · passive | marge | white | with tonsured head | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with head=Theme | |||
| 3 | tonsure | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | stand up | past | the kingly Tailkenn parataxis; reverence and dread parataxis; alone, behind property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bend | participle | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | kneel | past | low bent brows | a princely senate nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | gird | gerund | low bent brows not said here | that altar | as golden belt | tree rules |
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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