The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 36
Servitors Brimmed oft the goblets; and Ferdīa’s brow, As song to song succeeded, tale to tale, Remitted its first sternness.
Who acts: Servitors, tale · What happens: brim, succeed, remit · To what, where: oft goblets, tale, first sternness
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 (Servitors, tale), 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 | Servitors | servitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 succeeded | nsubj |
| 2 | Brimmed | brim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Servitors | acl |
| 3 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 goblets | amod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goblets | det |
| 5 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Brimmed | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 succeeded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 succeeded | cc |
| 8 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 brow | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Ferdīa | case |
| 10 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 succeeded | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 song | punct |
| 12 | As | as | ADP | _ | 13 song | case |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brow | appos |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 song | case |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | nmod |
| 16 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tale | punct |
| 18 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 succeeded | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 tale | case |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tale | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Remitted | punct |
| 22 | Remitted | remit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 tale | acl |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sternness | nmod:poss |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 sternness | amod |
| 25 | sternness | sternness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Remitted | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | brim | participle | Servitors not said here | the oft goblets | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | succeed | past | Servitors | tale | to tale; Ferdīa's brow nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | remit | participle | tale not said here | tale's first sternness | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sternness=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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