The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 151
Long hours they strove till morning’s purer gleams Vanished in noon.
Who acts: Long hours · What happens: strive, vanish · To what, where: purer gleams
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 (Long hours), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hours | amod |
| 2 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strove | nsubj |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 strove | nsubj |
| 4 | strove | strive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | till | till | ADP | _ | 9 gleams | case |
| 6 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gleams | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 morning | case |
| 8 | purer | pure | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 gleams | amod |
| 9 | gleams | gleam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 strove | obl |
| 10 | Vanished | vanish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 gleams | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 noon | case |
| 12 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Vanished | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strive | past | Long hours | till morning's purer gleams | deeds = deed nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | vanish | participle | morning's purer gleams not said here | noon | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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