The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 26
The youthful host Set forth their rural feast, whate’er the woods And they that in them dwelt, swine-herds, and hinds, Yielded, their best: nor lacked it minstrel strain, Bird-song by autumn chilled, that brake through boughs Lit by unwarming sunshine.
Who acts: youthful host, Setanta, that, autumn · What happens: set, that, dwell, yield, lack, chill · To what, where: rural feast, swine herds, hinds, feast, autumn, boughs
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 (youthful host, Setanta, that, autumn), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 host | det |
| 2 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 host | amod |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | Set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 host | acl |
| 5 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 4 Set | advmod |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 feast | nmod:poss |
| 7 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feast | amod |
| 8 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Set | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whate’er | punct |
| 10 | whate’er | whate'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 host | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woods | det |
| 12 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 host | conj |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 that | cc |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 that | nsubj |
| 15 | that | that | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 host | conj |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 18 dwelt | mark |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dwelt | nsubj |
| 18 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 that | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 herds | punct |
| 20 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 herds | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 swine | punct |
| 22 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dwelt | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 best | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 best | cc |
| 25 | hinds | hind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 best | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Yielded | punct |
| 27 | Yielded | yield | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 hinds | acl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 best | punct |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 best | nmod:poss |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 dwelt | advcl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 lacked | punct |
| 32 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 33 lacked | cc |
| 33 | lacked | lack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 dwelt | conj |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 lacked | obj |
| 35 | minstrel | minstrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 strain | compound |
| 36 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lacked | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 song | punct |
| 38 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 song | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 Bird | punct |
| 40 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 strain | appos |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 autumn | case |
| 42 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 song | nmod |
| 43 | chilled | chill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 autumn | acl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 brake | punct |
| 45 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 brake | nsubj |
| 46 | brake | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 strain | parataxis |
| 47 | through | through | ADP | _ | 48 boughs | case |
| 48 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 brake | obl |
| 49 | Lit | lit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 boughs | acl |
| 50 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 sunshine | case |
| 51 | unwarming | unwarming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 sunshine | amod |
| 52 | sunshine | sunshine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Lit | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 host | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | participle | the youthful host and whate’er and the woods not said here | Setanta's rural feast | forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient feast=Result | |||
| 2 | that | present | Setanta | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dwell | past | Setanta | swine herds | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | yield | participle | hinds not said here | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | lack | past | Setanta not said here | feast | minstrel strain obj | tree rules | |||
| 6 | chill | participle | autumn not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | break | present | that | boughs | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through bough=Location | ||||
| 8 | lit | participle | boughs not said here | by unwarming sunshine | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | sing | autumn | nom song «communication intransitive»: by=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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