The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 64
Saint Patrick stretched above the wave his hand And thus he spake--and wind and wave were stilled-- ‘Children of Lir, re-tread your native land, For now your long sea-penance is fulfilled!’
Who acts: Saint · What happens: stretch, speak, wave, still, re-tread, fulfil · To what, where: wind, wave, native land, long sea penance · 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 (Saint), 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 | Saint | Saint | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Saint | flat |
| 3 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | above | above | ADP | _ | 6 wave | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wave | det |
| 6 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wave | appos |
| 9 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 spake | cc |
| 10 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 spake | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 spake | nsubj |
| 12 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hand | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 wind | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wind | cc |
| 15 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 wave | cc |
| 17 | wave | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stretched | conj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stilled | aux:pass |
| 19 | stilled | still | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 wave | xcomp |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 22 Children | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 Children | punct |
| 22 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretched | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Lir | case |
| 24 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Children | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 re-tread | punct |
| 26 | re-tread | re-tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stretched | conj |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 land | nmod:poss |
| 28 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 land | amod |
| 29 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 re-tread | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fulfilled | punct |
| 31 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 39 fulfilled | mark |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 fulfilled | advmod |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 penance | nmod:poss |
| 34 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 penance | amod |
| 35 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 penance | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 sea | punct |
| 37 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 39 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 re-tread | advcl |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 39 fulfilled | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | Saint | wind | the wave | Children of Lir obl | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||
| 2 | speak speech: other | saint | thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | wave | present | Saint not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | still | past · passive | Saint not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 5 | re-tread | infinitive | Saint not said here | your native land | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fulfil | present · passive | your long sea penance | now | 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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