The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 63
Meave the while, Resting upon those great and growing hosts Her widening eyes, rejoiced within, and clutched The sceptre-staff with closer grasp, and heaved Higher her solid, broad, imperial breast, Amorous of battle nigh at hand.
Who acts: you · What happens: meave, rest, grow, widen, rejoice, clutch · To what, where: those, hosts, sceptre staff
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 (you), 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 | Meave | meave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Meave | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Resting | punct |
| 5 | Resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Meave | advcl |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 those | case |
| 7 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Resting | obl |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 those | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 growing | cc |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Resting | conj |
| 11 | hosts | host | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 growing | obj |
| 12 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | widening | widen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 eyes | amod |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 hosts | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rejoiced | punct |
| 16 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 hosts | acl |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 16 rejoiced | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 clutched | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 clutched | cc |
| 20 | clutched | clutch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Meave | parataxis |
| 21 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 staff | det |
| 22 | sceptre | sceptre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staff | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 sceptre | punct |
| 24 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 clutched | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 grasp | case |
| 26 | closer | close | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 grasp | amod |
| 27 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 staff | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heaved | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 heaved | cc |
| 30 | heaved | heave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 clutched | conj |
| 31 | Higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 solid | nsubj |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 solid | nmod:poss |
| 33 | solid | solid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 heaved | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 broad | punct |
| 35 | broad | broad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 solid | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 breast | punct |
| 37 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 breast | amod |
| 38 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 solid | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 Amorous | punct |
| 40 | Amorous | Amorous | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 solid | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 battle | case |
| 42 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Amorous | nmod |
| 43 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 45 hand | advmod |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 hand | case |
| 45 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 battle | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meave | imperative | you not said here | while | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | gerund | you not said here | those | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon that=Location | ||||
| 3 | grow | gerund | you not said here | hosts and Queen's widening eyes | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location host=Theme | ||||
| 4 | widen | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | rejoice | participle | hosts and Queen's widening eyes not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | clutch | past | the sceptre staff | with closer grasp | vn hold-15.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent staff=Theme | ||||
| 7 | heave | past | vn push-12 «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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