The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 62
Marvelling, as on they sailed that Rite they saw: But, when a third time pealed that Tailkenn’s bell, They too their halleluias, though with awe, Blended with his.
Who acts: Marvelling, Rite, brows · What happens: sail, see, peal, halleluia, blend
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 (Marvelling, Rite, 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 | Marvelling | marvelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 sailed | mark |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 3 as | fixed |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sailed | nsubj |
| 6 | sailed | sail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 8 | Rite | Rite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailed | advcl |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 pealed | punct |
| 12 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 pealed | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 pealed | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 pealed | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pealed | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | pealed | peal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sailed | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 bell | mark |
| 20 | Tailkenn | Tailkenn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 bell | nmod:poss |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 Tailkenn | case |
| 22 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pealed | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 halleluias | punct |
| 24 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 halleluias | nsubj |
| 25 | too | too | ADV | _ | 27 halleluias | advmod |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 halleluias | nmod:poss |
| 27 | halleluias | halleluia | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 pealed | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Blended | punct |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 Blended | mark |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 awe | case |
| 31 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Blended | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 awe | punct |
| 33 | Blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 pealed | parataxis |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 his | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 Blended | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | past | Marvelling | brows = brow nsubj | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Rite | brows = brow nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | peal | past | Marvelling not said here | time | Tailkenn's bell advcl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | halleluia | brows = brow | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | blend | participle | with awe; with Tailkenn | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with awe=Co-Patient |
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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