The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 113
He spake, and drave Northward; nor ceased from chatterings all day long, Since, like a Poplar, vocal was the man Not less than visible.
Who acts: many, spake · What happens: speak, drave, cease, be · To what, where: chatterings, man · 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 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, spake), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 man | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 drave | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 drave | cc |
| 5 | drave | drave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | acl:relcl |
| 6 | Northward | northward | ADV | _ | 5 drave | advmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 ceased | punct |
| 8 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 9 ceased | cc |
| 9 | ceased | cease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 spake | parataxis |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 chatterings | case |
| 11 | chatterings | chattering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ceased | obl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 long | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 ceased | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Poplar | punct |
| 16 | Since | since | SCONJ | _ | 20 Poplar | mark |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Poplar | punct |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 Poplar | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Poplar | det |
| 20 | Poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ceased | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 vocal | punct |
| 22 | vocal | vocal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Poplar | amod |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 man | cop |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 26 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 less | advmod |
| 27 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 man | nmod |
| 28 | than | than | ADP | _ | 29 visible | case |
| 29 | visible | visible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 less | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | many | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | drave | infinitive | spake not said here | northward property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cease | participle | chatterings | a Poplar parataxis; long property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | spake | the man | less nmod | 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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