The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 184
‘Northward of Eman lies a pleasaunce green: The Arch-Druid, Cathbad, gazer on the stars, While there the youths contended, beckoned one And whispered, “Happy shall that stripling prove Knighted this day!
Who acts: Northward, stripling · What happens: lie, contend, beckon, whisper, prove, knight · To what, where: pleasaunce green, one · 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 (Northward, stripling), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Northward | punct |
| 2 | Northward | Northward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Eman | case |
| 4 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Northward | nmod |
| 5 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 green | det |
| 7 | pleasaunce | pleasaunce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 green | compound |
| 8 | green | green | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obj |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 Arch-Druid | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Arch-Druid | det |
| 11 | Arch-Druid | Arch-Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lies | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Cathbad | punct |
| 13 | Cathbad | Cathbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Arch-Druid | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 gazer | punct |
| 15 | gazer | gazer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Arch-Druid | appos |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 stars | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stars | det |
| 18 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gazer | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 contended | punct |
| 20 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 contended | mark |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 contended | expl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 youths | det |
| 23 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 there | obj |
| 24 | contended | contend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lies | parataxis |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 beckoned | punct |
| 26 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 contended | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 beckoned | obj |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 whispered | cc |
| 29 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 contended | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 prove | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 prove | punct |
| 32 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 prove | conj |
| 33 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 prove | aux |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 stripling | det |
| 35 | stripling | stripling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prove | nsubj |
| 36 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 whispered | parataxis |
| 37 | Knighted | knight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 prove | xcomp |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 day | det |
| 39 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 Knighted | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 lies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | present | Northward of Eman | a pleasaunce green | the Arch-Druid and Cathbad obl | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location green=Theme | |||
| 2 | contend | past | there | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beckon | past | one | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient | |||||
| 4 | whisper speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | prove in a quote | shall | that stripling | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | knight in a quote | participle | that stripling not said here | day | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=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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