The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 74
The saint baptized them in the Name Divine, And, swift as thought, their happy spirits at last To God’s high feast and singing angels passed.
Who acts: saint, angels · What happens: baptize, swift, sing, pass · To what, where: speech, Name Divine, happy spirits · 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, angels), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 saint | det |
| 2 | saint | saint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 baptized | nsubj |
| 3 | baptized | baptize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 baptized | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Divine | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Divine | det |
| 7 | Name | Name | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Divine | compound |
| 8 | Divine | Divine | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 baptized | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swift | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 swift | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 swift | punct |
| 12 | swift | swift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 baptized | conj |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 thought | case |
| 14 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 swift | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 spirits | punct |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 17 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 spirits | amod |
| 18 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 swift | obl |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 feast | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 God | amod |
| 21 | To | To | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 God | compound |
| 22 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 feast | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 God | case |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feast | amod |
| 25 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 spirits | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 singing | cc |
| 27 | singing | sing | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 feast | conj |
| 28 | angels | angel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 passed | nsubj |
| 29 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 singing | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 baptized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | baptize | past | the saint | speech | the Name Divine | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | swift | present | the saint not said here | speech's happy spirits at last To God's high feast | as thought | tree rules | |||
| 3 | sing speech: express | gerund | the saint not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pass | past | angels | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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