The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 151
Thus Saltain told his tale: One thing he told not--how, a moment’s space, The passion of an old man’s scorn had wrought Deliverance strange for that astonished throng, High miracle of nature.
Who acts: Saltain, One thing, space, old man · What happens: tell, not tell, have, scorn · To what, where: tale · 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 (Saltain, One thing, space, old man), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | Saltain | Saltain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 tale | nmod:poss |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 7 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 thing | nummod |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 told | advmod |
| 12 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 how | punct |
| 13 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 told | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 space | punct |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 space | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 18 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 had | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 passion | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 passion | det |
| 21 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 space | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 scorn | case |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 man | det |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | amod |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 scorn | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 man | case |
| 27 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 passion | nmod |
| 28 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | ccomp |
| 29 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 had | xcomp |
| 30 | Deliverance | Deliverance | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 strange | compound |
| 31 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 wrought | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 throng | case |
| 33 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 throng | det |
| 34 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 throng | amod |
| 35 | throng | throng | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 wrought | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 miracle | punct |
| 37 | High | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 miracle | amod |
| 38 | miracle | miracle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 throng | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 nature | case |
| 40 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 miracle | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Saltain | Saltain's tale | thus property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tale=Recipient | |||
| 2 | not tell speech: assert | past | One thing | Saltain nsubj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | have | past | a moment's space | wrought property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell | Saltain | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | scorn | a old man | nom scorn «feeling 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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