The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 75
Sea-blue were her eyes, And berry-red her scornful lip; her cheek White as the snow-drift of a single night; Her voice like harp-strings when the harper’s hand Half drowns their pathos.
Who acts: Sea blue, berry, hand Half · What happens: be, lip, drown, drift · To what, where: eyes, pathos, single night
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 (Sea blue, berry, hand Half), 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 | Sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blue | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sea | punct |
| 3 | blue | blue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eyes | cop |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 lip | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 lip | cc |
| 9 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lip | nsubj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 berry | punct |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lip | amod |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 lip | nmod:poss |
| 13 | scornful | scornful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lip | amod |
| 14 | lip | lip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | conj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 cheek | punct |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eyes | conj |
| 18 | White | White | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 cheek | appos |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 drift | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 drift | det |
| 21 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drift | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 snow | punct |
| 23 | drift | drift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cheek | nmod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 night | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 26 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 night | amod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 drift | nmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 voice | punct |
| 29 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 voice | nmod:poss |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cheek | conj |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 34 strings | case |
| 32 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strings | compound |
| 33 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 32 harp | punct |
| 34 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 voice | nmod |
| 35 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 41 drowns | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 harper | det |
| 37 | harper | harper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 harper | case |
| 39 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Half | compound |
| 40 | Half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 41 drowns | nsubj |
| 41 | drowns | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 voice | acl |
| 42 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 pathos | nmod:poss |
| 43 | pathos | pathos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 drowns | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 eyes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Sea blue | Eclipse's eyes and Eclipse's red scornful lip and Eclipse's cheek as the snow drift of a single night and Eclipse's voice like harp strings | Eclipse nmod:poss; Eclipse's cheek as the snow drift of a single night and Eclipse's voice like harp strings conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lip | berry | Eclipse nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | drown | present | hand Half | strings's pathos | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pathos=Patient | ||||
| 4 | drift | a single night | nom drift «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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