The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 78
A hundred harps Rang out together, and the feast was o’er: Murmured the rose-red lips; but what they said He heard not.
Who acts: hundred harps, feast, harp, Ferdīa · What happens: ring out, be, murmur, say, not hear · To what, where: red lips · 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 (hundred harps, feast, harp, Ferdīa), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hundred | det |
| 2 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 harps | nummod |
| 3 | harps | harp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Rang | nsubj |
| 4 | Rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 Rang | advmod |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 Rang | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 o’er | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 o’er | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 feast | det |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 o’er | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 o’er | cop |
| 12 | o’er | o' | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 Rang | parataxis |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 Murmured | punct |
| 14 | Murmured | murmur | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 o’er | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 lips | det |
| 16 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 red | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 rose | punct |
| 18 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lips | amod |
| 19 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 Murmured | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 22 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 said | obj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Rang | parataxis |
| 25 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 heard | nsubj |
| 26 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 heard | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ring out | past | hundred harps | out, together property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the feast | o' property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | participle | the feast not said here | the red lips | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | harp | what obj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not hear | past | Ferdīa | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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