The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 52
Wondering, all men gazed, And maidens, lifted on the warriors’ shields, Gladdened, so bright that youthful face.
Who acts: men · What happens: wonder, gaze, lift, gladden · To what, where: maidens, shields
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 (men), 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 | Wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 gazed | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wondering | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 men | det |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gazed | nsubj |
| 5 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 maidens | punct |
| 7 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 maidens | cc |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 gazed | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lifted | punct |
| 10 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 maidens | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 shields | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 warriors | det |
| 13 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shields | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 warriors | case |
| 15 | shields | shield | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lifted | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Gladdened | punct |
| 17 | Gladdened | gladden | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 shields | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 bright | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 20 bright | advmod |
| 20 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 gazed | parataxis |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 face | mark |
| 22 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bright | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | all men not said here | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | all men | maidens | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lift | participle | maidens not said here | the warriors's shields obl:agent | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | gladden | participle | the warriors's shields not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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