The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 12
The all-conquering years Conquered not her: the strength of endless prime Lived in her royal tread and breast and eye A life immortal.
Who acts: conquering years, strength, warrioress · What happens: conquer, not conquer, live, tread · To what, where: warrioress, life immortal, royal tread
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 (conquering years, strength, warrioress), 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 | 5 years | det |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 conquering | advmod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 all | punct |
| 4 | conquering | conquer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 years | amod |
| 5 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Conquered | nsubj |
| 6 | Conquered | conquer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 Conquered | advmod |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 Conquered | obl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 strength | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 strength | det |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lived | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 prime | case |
| 13 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prime | amod |
| 14 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 strength | nmod |
| 15 | Lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Conquered | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 tread | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tread | nmod:poss |
| 18 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 tread | amod |
| 19 | tread | tread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lived | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 breast | cc |
| 21 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tread | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eye | cc |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tread | conj |
| 24 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 immortal | det |
| 25 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 immortal | compound |
| 26 | immortal | immortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Lived | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Conquered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conquer | gerund | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | not conquer | past | the conquering years | warrioress | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the strength of endless prime | a life immortal | warrioress's royal tread and breast and eye | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tread=Location | |||
| 4 | tread | warrioress | nom tread «act 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/12/