The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 142
I sought the brothers Nemeth: one his eyes Bent on the smoke-wreath from his chimney’s top, One on the foam-streak wavering down the stream; While each a finger raised, and said “Tread light!
Who acts: I, foam streak · What happens: seek, bend, waver, raise, say, tread · To what, where: brothers Nemeth, one eyes, smoke wreath, finger, light · 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, foam 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 sought | nsubj |
| 2 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 brothers | det |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Nemeth | compound |
| 5 | Nemeth | Nemeth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | nummod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sought | obl |
| 10 | Bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wreath | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wreath | det |
| 13 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wreath | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 smoke | punct |
| 15 | wreath | wreath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bent | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 top | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 chimney | nmod:poss |
| 18 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 top | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 chimney | case |
| 20 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wreath | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 One | punct |
| 22 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 eyes | conj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 streak | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 streak | det |
| 25 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 streak | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 foam | punct |
| 27 | streak | streak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 One | nmod |
| 28 | wavering | waver | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 streak | acl |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 31 stream | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 stream | det |
| 31 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wavering | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 finger | punct |
| 33 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 36 finger | mark |
| 34 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 finger | det |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 finger | det |
| 36 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sought | obl |
| 37 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 finger | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 said | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 said | cc |
| 40 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 sought | parataxis |
| 41 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 42 Tread | punct |
| 42 | Tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 said | ccomp |
| 43 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 Tread | obj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | I | brothers Nemeth | Nemeth's one eyes obl; each finger obl | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nemeth=Theme | |||
| 2 | bend | participle | Nemeth's one eyes not said here | the smoke wreath from Nemeth's chimney's top | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wreath=Location | ||||
| 3 | waver | gerund | the foam streak not said here | down the stream | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | raise | participle | each finger not said here | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 6 | tread in a quote | infinitive | light | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location light=Theme |
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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