The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 79
The men who saw that deathbed did not weep, But gazed till sunset upon each fair face; And then with funeral psalm, and anthems deep, Interred them at that sacred altar’s base, And graved their names in Ogham characters On one white tomb; and, close beneath them, Lir’s.
Who acts: men, deathbed, anthems · What happens: see, not weep, gaze, inter, grave, name · To what, where: anthems, base, names, Ogham characters · 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 (men, deathbed, anthems), 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 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 weep | mark |
| 6 | deathbed | deathbed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 weep | nsubj |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 weep | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 weep | advmod |
| 9 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 saw | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gazed | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 gazed | cc |
| 12 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 sunset | case |
| 14 | sunset | sunset | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gazed | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 face | det |
| 17 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 face | amod |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gazed | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 psalm | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 psalm | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 psalm | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 psalm | case |
| 23 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 psalm | compound |
| 24 | psalm | psalm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 saw | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 deep | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 deep | cc |
| 27 | anthems | anthem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 deep | nsubj |
| 28 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Interred | punct |
| 30 | Interred | inter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 deep | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 Interred | obj |
| 32 | at | at | ADP | _ | 37 base | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 altar | det |
| 34 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 altar | amod |
| 35 | altar | altar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 base | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 altar | case |
| 37 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Interred | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 graved | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 graved | cc |
| 40 | graved | grave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 names | nmod:poss |
| 42 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 graved | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 characters | case |
| 44 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 characters | compound |
| 45 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 graved | obl |
| 46 | On | on | ADP | _ | 49 tomb | case |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 49 tomb | nummod |
| 48 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 tomb | amod |
| 49 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 graved | obl |
| 50 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 close | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 close | cc |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 close | punct |
| 53 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 saw | conj |
| 54 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 55 them | case |
| 55 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 close | obl |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 57 Lir | punct |
| 57 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 close | obl |
| 58 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 57 Lir | case |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the men | with funeral psalm; who nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not weep | past · do-support | deathbed | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | gaze | past | the men not said here | sunset | upon each fair face | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon face=Theme | |||
| 4 | inter | participle | the men not said here | anthems = anthem | that sacred altar's base | tree rules | |||
| 5 | grave | past | the men not said here | anthems's names | Ogham characters | on one white tomb | tree rules | ||
| 6 | name | anthems = anthem | nom name «communication 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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