The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 43
With eye Reverently dewed the princess gazed thereon: ‘Aye, of your war-deeds I have heard so long, It seems as though since childhood--Whence that wound?
Who acts: princess, I, It · What happens: dew, gaze, hear, seem
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 (princess, I, It), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 eye | case |
| 2 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dewed | obl |
| 3 | Reverently | reverently | ADV | _ | 4 dewed | advmod |
| 4 | dewed | dew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 princess | det |
| 6 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gazed | nsubj |
| 7 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dewed | ccomp |
| 8 | thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 7 gazed | advmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 seems | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 seems | punct |
| 11 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 25 seems | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 heard | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 deeds | case |
| 14 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 deeds | nmod:poss |
| 15 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 deeds | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 war | punct |
| 17 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 heard | obl |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 heard | nsubj |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 heard | aux |
| 20 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 seems | advcl |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 long | advmod |
| 22 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 heard | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seems | punct |
| 24 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 seems | nsubj |
| 25 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dewed | parataxis |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 though | case |
| 27 | though | though | ADV | _ | 25 seems | xcomp |
| 28 | since | since | ADP | _ | 29 childhood | case |
| 29 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seems | obl |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 31 Whence | punct |
| 31 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 seems | conj |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 wound | det |
| 33 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 Whence | nsubj |
| 34 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 dewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dew | past | with eye; reverently property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gaze | past | the princess | thereon property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | present · perfect | I | of your war deeds; long property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of deed=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | seem | present | It | since childhood | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: 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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