The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 140
To Olchar’s Dûn I journeyed: wrapp’d in rags the strong man lay, Thin from long fast; with eyelids well nigh closed: Not less beneath them lay a gleaming streak: “Awake me not,” he said: “a dormouse I!
Who acts: I, wrapp, less, gleaming streak, man · What happens: journey, ', lay, thin, close, gleam · To what, where: Dûn, wrapp, rags, gleaming streak, man · 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 (I, wrapp, less, gleaming streak), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 Dûn | case |
| 2 | Olchar | Olchar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Dûn | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Olchar | case |
| 4 | Dûn | Dûn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 journeyed | obl |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 journeyed | nsubj |
| 6 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 said | advcl |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 wrapp | punct |
| 8 | wrapp | wrapp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | ’d | ' | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wrapp | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 rags | case |
| 11 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ’d | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 journeyed | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Thin | punct |
| 17 | Thin | thin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 lay | conj |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 long | case |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 fast | advmod |
| 20 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 Thin | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 closed | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 eyelids | case |
| 23 | eyelids | eyelid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 closed | obl |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 closed | advmod |
| 25 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 26 closed | advmod |
| 26 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 journeyed | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 less | punct |
| 28 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 less | advmod |
| 29 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 lay | nsubj |
| 30 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 less | obl |
| 32 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 journeyed | parataxis |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 streak | det |
| 34 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 streak | amod |
| 35 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lay | obj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 Awake | punct |
| 37 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 38 Awake | punct |
| 38 | Awake | awake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 streak | acl:relcl |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 Awake | obj |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 Awake | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 lay | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 journeyed | punct |
| 43 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 said | nsubj |
| 44 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 dormouse | punct |
| 46 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 dormouse | punct |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 dormouse | det |
| 48 | dormouse | dormouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 said | ccomp |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 dormouse | nsubj |
| 50 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 44 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | I | Olchar's Dûn | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ' | participle | wrapp not said here | rags | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lay | infinitive | wrapp | the strong man nsubj | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | thin | infinitive | wrapp not said here | fast property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | close | participle | I not said here | with eyelids; nigh, well property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with eyelid=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lay | present | less beneath eyelids | a gleaming streak | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Result | ||||
| 7 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | not awake in a quote | infinitive | a gleaming streak not said here | man | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | ||||
| 9 | say speech: express | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | dormouse in a quote | man | 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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