The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 8
For bard he was; and still the bard-like nature Hath reverence, as for virtue, so for woe, And ever finds in trials of the creature The great Creator’s purpose here below To lift by lowering, and through anguish strange To fit for thrones exempt from chance or change.
Who acts: lore, thrones, great Creator · What happens: be, find, lift, lower, anguish, fit · To what, where: trials, chance, creature
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 (lore, thrones, great Creator), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 bard | case |
| 2 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hath | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Hath | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Hath | cop |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hath | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Hath | cc |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 Hath | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nature | det |
| 9 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 like | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 bard | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 nature | amod |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hath | nsubj |
| 13 | Hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hath | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 virtue | punct |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 virtue | case |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 virtue | case |
| 18 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hath | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 woe | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 woe | advmod |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 woe | case |
| 22 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Hath | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 finds | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 finds | cc |
| 25 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 26 finds | advmod |
| 26 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Hath | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 trials | case |
| 28 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 finds | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 creature | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 creature | det |
| 31 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 trials | nmod |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Creator | det |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Creator | amod |
| 34 | Creator | Creator | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Creator | case |
| 36 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 creature | acl:relcl |
| 37 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 below | advmod |
| 38 | below | below | ADV | _ | 26 finds | advmod |
| 39 | To | to | PART | _ | 40 lift | mark |
| 40 | lift | lift | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 finds | advcl |
| 41 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 42 lowering | mark |
| 42 | lowering | lower | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 40 lift | advcl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 anguish | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 anguish | cc |
| 45 | through | through | ADP | _ | 46 anguish | case |
| 46 | anguish | anguish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 13 Hath | conj |
| 47 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 anguish | xcomp |
| 48 | To | to | PART | _ | 49 fit | mark |
| 49 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 strange | advcl |
| 50 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 52 exempt | mark |
| 51 | thrones | throne | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 exempt | nsubj |
| 52 | exempt | exempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 fit | advcl |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 chance | case |
| 54 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 exempt | obl |
| 55 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 56 change | cc |
| 56 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 chance | conj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | lore | still | for bard; for woe; the like nature nsubj; reverence obj; virtue conj; have property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find | present | lore not said here | trials of the creature the great Creator's purpose; here | ever | below property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | lift | to-infinitive | lore not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lower | gerund | lore not said here | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | anguish | present | lore not said here | strange property | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | fit | to-infinitive | lore not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | exempt | present | thrones | chance or change | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | try | the creature the great Creator's purpose | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | purpose | the great Creator | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: 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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