The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 106
Through grief that night He slept not; for the Magic Clan had power, Though dead, to lean above him as a cloud Darkening his spirit.
Who acts: strength, Magic Clan, cloud · What happens: not sleep, have, lean, darken · To what, where: grief, power, spirit
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, Magic Clan, cloud), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 2 grief | case |
| 2 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | obl |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 night | det |
| 4 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 slept | nsubj |
| 6 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 slept | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 Clan | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Clan | det |
| 11 | Magic | Magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Clan | compound |
| 12 | Clan | Clan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 slept | parataxis |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 dead | punct |
| 16 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 had | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 lean | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 lean | mark |
| 20 | lean | lean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 had | conj |
| 21 | above | above | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 lean | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 cloud | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cloud | det |
| 25 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lean | obl |
| 26 | Darkening | darken | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 cloud | acl |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 28 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Darkening | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 slept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sleep | past | strength | grief | night | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | have | past | the Magic Clan | power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 3 | lean | to-infinitive | the Magic Clan not said here | above strength; as a cloud | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent above he=Location | ||||
| 4 | darken | gerund | a cloud not said here | strength's spirit | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent spirit=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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