The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 79
Mournfully at last withdrew Those eyes, like eyes fated thenceforth to bear One image on till death.
What happens: withdraw, fate, bear · To what, where: eyes, last, One image, death
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: 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 | Mournfully | mournfully | ADV | _ | 4 withdrew | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 3 last | case |
| 3 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 withdrew | obl |
| 4 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 eyes | det |
| 6 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 withdrew | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 eyes | punct |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 withdrew | obl |
| 10 | fated | fate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 eyes | acl |
| 11 | thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 10 fated | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 bear | mark |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fated | advcl |
| 14 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 image | nummod |
| 15 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 17 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 death | case |
| 18 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bear | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | withdraw | past | that eyes | last | like eyes; mournfully property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme | |||
| 2 | fate | participle | eyes not said here | thenceforth property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | One image | death | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Patient |
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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