The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 68
And louder soon her dirge-like anthem rang: ‘Lo, thus the Children’s burial I decree: Make fair our grave where land and ocean meet; And t’ward thy holy Altar place our feet.
Who acts: like anthem, I, land, Children · What happens: ring, decree, make, meet, bury · To what, where: burial, grave
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 (like anthem, I, land, Children), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 rang | cc |
| 2 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 rang | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 rang | advmod |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 anthem | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 dirge | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 anthem | amod |
| 8 | anthem | anthem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rang | nsubj |
| 9 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 rang | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 rang | punct |
| 12 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 rang | discourse |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 burial | punct |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 18 burial | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Children | det |
| 16 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 burial | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Children | case |
| 18 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rang | parataxis |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 decree | nsubj |
| 20 | decree | decree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 burial | acl:relcl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Make | punct |
| 22 | Make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 rang | advcl |
| 23 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Make | xcomp |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 grave | nmod:poss |
| 25 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Make | obj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 30 meet | advmod |
| 27 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 meet | nsubj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 ocean | cc |
| 29 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 land | conj |
| 30 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 grave | acl:relcl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 place | punct |
| 32 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 place | cc |
| 33 | t’ward | t'ward | ADV | _ | 37 place | advmod |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 place | nmod:poss |
| 35 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 place | amod |
| 36 | Altar | Altar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 place | compound |
| 37 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rang | parataxis |
| 38 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 feet | nmod:poss |
| 39 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 place | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring | past | Finola's like anthem | the Children's burial parataxis; thy holy Altar place and our feet parataxis; soon property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | decree | present | I | the Children's burial not said here | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent burial=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | infinitive | Finola's like anthem not said here | our grave | fair property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grave=Product | |||
| 4 | meet | present | land and ocean | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bury | the Children | nom burial «event 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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