The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 76
While, low-bowed, That concourse gazed upon the reverend dead Behold, like changeful shapes in evening cloud, Vanished those time-worn bodies; and, instead, Inwoven lay four children, white and young With silver-lidded eyes and lashes long.
Who acts: concourse · What happens: bow, gaze, vanish, inweave, lay, lid · To what, where: worn bodies, four children
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 (concourse), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 bowed | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
| 3 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bowed | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 low | punct |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gazed | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
| 7 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 concourse | det |
| 8 | concourse | concourse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazed | nsubj |
| 9 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 reverend | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reverend | det |
| 12 | reverend | reverend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gazed | obl |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 reverend | amod |
| 14 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 9 gazed | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shapes | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 shapes | case |
| 17 | changeful | changeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 shapes | amod |
| 18 | shapes | shape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gazed | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cloud | case |
| 20 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cloud | compound |
| 21 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 shapes | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Vanished | punct |
| 23 | Vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gazed | conj |
| 24 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 bodies | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 worn | obl:unmarked |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 time | punct |
| 27 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bodies | amod |
| 28 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Vanished | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 lay | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 lay | cc |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 and | punct |
| 32 | instead | instead | ADV | _ | 34 Inwoven | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 instead | punct |
| 34 | Inwoven | inweave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 lay | amod |
| 35 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 gazed | advcl |
| 36 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 children | nummod |
| 37 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 lay | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 white | punct |
| 39 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 lay | xcomp |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 young | cc |
| 41 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 white | conj |
| 42 | With | with | ADP | _ | 46 eyes | case |
| 43 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lidded | compound |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 silver | punct |
| 45 | lidded | lid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 eyes | amod |
| 46 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 white | obl |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 lashes | cc |
| 48 | lashes | lash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 eyes | conj |
| 49 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 39 white | advmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | participle | that concourse not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | that concourse | upon the reverend; like changeful shapes in evening cloud | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon reverend=Theme | ||||
| 3 | vanish | past | that concourse not said here | that worn bodies | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inweave | participle | instead property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | lay | present | that concourse not said here | four children | white property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Result | |||
| 6 | lid | participle | silver compound | 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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