The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 58
Changed once more The martial songs to amorous and of mirth, And once again the torches’ golden flame Laughed on the cup new-brimmed.
Who acts: torches · What happens: change, laugh, brim, flame · To what, where: golden flame, cup
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 (torches), 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 | Changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 more | advmod |
| 3 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Changed | advmod |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 songs | det |
| 5 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 songs | amod |
| 6 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Changed | obl:agent |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 amorous | case |
| 8 | amorous | amorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 songs | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 mirth | cc |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mirth | case |
| 11 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 amorous | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flame | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flame | cc |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 again | advmod |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 flame | advmod |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 torches | det |
| 17 | torches | torch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 flame | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 17 torches | case |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 flame | amod |
| 20 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 songs | conj |
| 21 | Laughed | laugh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 flame | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 cup | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 cup | det |
| 24 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Laughed | obl |
| 25 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 brimmed | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 new | punct |
| 27 | brimmed | brim | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 cup | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | participle | the martial songs to amorous and mirth and the torches's golden flame obl:agent | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | laugh | participle | the torches's golden flame not said here | the cup | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | brim | participle | the cup not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | flame | the torches | nom flame «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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