The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 149
Once more it swelled his breast: In majesty re-clothed each massive limb, And flashed in darksome light of hair and eye Resplendent as of old.
Who acts: hand · What happens: swell, re-cloth, flash, light · To what, where: breast, massive limb, majesty, darksome light, hair
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hand), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 2 more | advmod |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 swelled | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 swelled | nsubj |
| 4 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 breast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swelled | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 re-clothed | punct |
| 8 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 majesty | case |
| 9 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 re-clothed | obl |
| 10 | re-clothed | re-cloth | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swelled | conj |
| 11 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 limb | det |
| 12 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 limb | amod |
| 13 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 re-clothed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flashed | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flashed | cc |
| 16 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 swelled | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 light | case |
| 18 | darksome | darksome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 light | amod |
| 19 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flashed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 hair | case |
| 21 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eye | cc |
| 23 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 light | conj |
| 24 | Resplendent | resplendent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 flashed | xcomp |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 27 old | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 as | fixed |
| 27 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Resplendent | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 swelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swell | past | hand | Cuchullain's breast | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient breast=Extent | ||||
| 2 | re-cloth | past | hand not said here | each massive limb | majesty | tree rules | |||
| 3 | flash | past | hand not said here | darksome light of hair and eye | resplendent property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in light=Location | |||
| 4 | light | hair | nom light «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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