The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 70
Tearful she turned On him those luminaries of love and death, Her eyes, like stars in midnight waters glassed; Turned them, but spake no longer.
Who acts: Tearful · What happens: turn, glass · To what, where: luminaries, midnight waters
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 (Tearful), 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 | Tearful | tearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | nsubj |
| 3 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 turned | obl |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 luminaries | det |
| 7 | luminaries | luminary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 turned | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 love | case |
| 9 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 luminaries | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 death | cc |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 love | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 eyes | punct |
| 13 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 luminaries | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stars | punct |
| 16 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 stars | case |
| 17 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 luminaries | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 waters | case |
| 19 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 waters | compound |
| 20 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 stars | nmod |
| 21 | glassed | glass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 waters | acl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 Turned | punct |
| 23 | Turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 turned | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 Turned | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 spake | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 spake | cc |
| 27 | spake | speak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 Turned | xcomp |
| 28 | no | no | ADV | _ | 29 longer | advmod |
| 29 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 27 spake | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | past | Tearful | that luminaries of love and death and smile's eyes and stars in midnight waters | on Cuchullain; smile nsubj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent luminary=Theme | |||
| 2 | glass | participle | midnight waters not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | past | Tearful not said here | luminaries = luminary | speak property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=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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