The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 132
Old seers I saw that decked Time-honoured foreheads with a jester’s crown: I saw an ollamb trample under foot His sacred Oghams: next I saw him grave His own blear image on the tide-washed sands, Boasting, “The unnumbered ages here shall stoop Honouring true Wisdom’s image.”
Who acts: Old seers, I, man, unnumbered ages, jester, Wisdom · What happens: see, deck, grave, wash, boast, stoop · To what, where: decked honoured foreheads, ollamb trample, foot, man, own blear image, washed sands · 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 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Old seers, I, man, unnumbered ages), 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 | Old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 seers | amod |
| 2 | seers | seer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 foreheads | mark |
| 6 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 foreheads | amod |
| 7 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 decked | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Time | punct |
| 9 | honoured | honoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 foreheads | amod |
| 10 | foreheads | forehead | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 saw | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 crown | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 jester | det |
| 13 | jester | jester | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crown | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 jester | case |
| 15 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foreheads | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 19 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 trample | det |
| 20 | ollamb | ollamb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 trample | amod |
| 21 | trample | trample | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 22 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obl |
| 24 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Oghams | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Oghams | amod |
| 26 | Oghams | ogham | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 saw | obj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 saw | punct |
| 28 | next | next | ADV | _ | 30 saw | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | nsubj |
| 30 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 saw | conj |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 saw | obj |
| 32 | grave | grave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 saw | xcomp |
| 33 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 image | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 image | amod |
| 35 | blear | blear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 image | amod |
| 36 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 grave | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 sands | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 sands | det |
| 39 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 washed | compound |
| 40 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 39 tide | punct |
| 41 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 sands | amod |
| 42 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 grave | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 Boasting | punct |
| 44 | Boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 saw | advcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 stoop | punct |
| 46 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 stoop | punct |
| 47 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ages | det |
| 48 | unnumbered | unnumbered | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ages | amod |
| 49 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 stoop | nsubj |
| 50 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 ages | advmod |
| 51 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 52 stoop | aux |
| 52 | stoop | stoop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 Boasting | ccomp |
| 53 | Honouring | honouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 image | amod |
| 54 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 image | amod |
| 55 | Wisdom | Wisdom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 57 image | nmod:poss |
| 56 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 55 Wisdom | case |
| 57 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 stoop | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 52 stoop | punct |
| 59 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 52 stoop | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Old seers | decked honoured foreheads | with a jester's crown; I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer forehead=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | deck | participle | time | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | past | I | a ollamb trample | foot | man's sacred Oghams obj | tree rules | ||
| 4 | see | past | I | man | next property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | grave | infinitive | man not said here | man's own blear image | the washed sands | tree rules | |||
| 6 | wash | participle | tide compound | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | boast speech: other | gerund | I not said here | vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | stoop in a quote | shall | the unnumbered ages | Wisdom's Honouring true image | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location image=Theme | ||||
| 9 | crown | a jester | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 10 | image | man | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | image in a quote | Wisdom | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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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