The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 152
Sharper that day their speech; For, in the intenser present, years gone by Hung but like pallid, thin, horizon clouds O’er memory’s loneliest limit.
Who acts: deeds · What happens: go, speak · To what, where: intenser present, Sharper speech · 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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deeds), 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 | Sharper | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 speech | amod |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Sharper | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 speech | nmod:poss |
| 5 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 present | punct |
| 7 | For | for | ADP | _ | 12 present | case |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 present | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 present | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 present | det |
| 11 | intenser | intense | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 present | amod |
| 12 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 speech | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 years | punct |
| 14 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 present | conj |
| 15 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 present | acl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 Hung | case |
| 17 | Hung | Hung | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 gone | obl |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 thin | cc |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 20 pallid | case |
| 20 | pallid | pallid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thin | amod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pallid | punct |
| 22 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Hung | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 clouds | punct |
| 24 | horizon | horizon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clouds | compound |
| 25 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 present | conj |
| 26 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 memory | compound |
| 27 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 limit | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 memory | case |
| 29 | loneliest | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 limit | amod |
| 30 | limit | limit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 clouds | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 speech | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | participle | the intenser present and years and horizon clouds and O’er memory's loneliest limit not said here | by Hung | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by hung=Location | ||||
| 3 | speak | deeds = deed | for the intenser present and years and horizon clouds and O’er memory's loneliest limit | nom speech «communication transitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
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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