The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 108
While thus he sat He saw, not distant, on the forest floor, In moonbeams clad, though moon was near him none, A pure and princely presence.
Who acts: Clan, moonbeams · What happens: sit, see, clad, be · To what, where: forest floor, none
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 (Clan, moonbeams), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 sat | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 sat | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | advcl |
| 5 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 distant | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 distant | advmod |
| 9 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 floor | punct |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 floor | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 floor | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 floor | compound |
| 14 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 clad | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 17 moonbeams | case |
| 17 | moonbeams | moonbeam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 clad | nsubj |
| 18 | clad | clad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 none | punct |
| 20 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 25 none | mark |
| 21 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 none | compound |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 him | cop |
| 23 | near | near | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 moon | nmod |
| 25 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 clad | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 presence | punct |
| 27 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 presence | det |
| 28 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 presence | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 princely | cc |
| 30 | princely | princely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 pure | conj |
| 31 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 none | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Clan | thus property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | Clan | the forest floor | distant property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | clad | past | moonbeams | none a pure presence | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | near Clan | tree rules |
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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