The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 108
The strong man’s death Lifted that veil his victory ne’er had raised: Standing mid others she beheld him dead: Thenceforth that deep-toned voice, that mournful front, Those stern yet stately ways, so great and plain, Haunted her memory.
Who acts: death, veil, Vanity, that, strong man · What happens: lift, raise, stand, behold, tone, voice · To what, where: veil, victory ne’er, mid, death, mournful front, memory
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (death, veil, Vanity, that), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 man | case |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lifted | nsubj |
| 6 | Lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 veil | det |
| 8 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lifted | obj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 ne’er | nmod:poss |
| 10 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ne’er | compound |
| 11 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 raised | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 raised | aux |
| 13 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 veil | acl:relcl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 Standing | punct |
| 15 | Standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 Lifted | advcl |
| 16 | mid | mid | X | _ | 15 Standing | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Standing | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | nsubj |
| 19 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Standing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 beheld | obj |
| 21 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 beheld | xcomp |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 voice | punct |
| 23 | Thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 28 voice | advmod |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 voice | nsubj |
| 25 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 voice | amod |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 deep | punct |
| 27 | toned | tone | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 voice | amod |
| 28 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Lifted | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 front | punct |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 front | det |
| 31 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 front | amod |
| 32 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 voice | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 ways | punct |
| 34 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 38 ways | det |
| 35 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ways | amod |
| 36 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 37 stately | cc |
| 37 | stately | stately | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 stern | conj |
| 38 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 voice | conj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 great | punct |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 great | advmod |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 ways | amod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 plain | cc |
| 43 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 great | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 Haunted | punct |
| 45 | Haunted | haunt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 Lifted | conj |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 memory | nmod:poss |
| 47 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 Haunted | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift | past | the strong man's death | that veil | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | ||||
| 2 | raise | past · perfect · passive | that veil not said here | death's victory ne’er | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | the strong man's death not said here | mid | others obj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer other=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | behold | past | Vanity | death | dead property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | tone | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | voice speech: other | that | that mournful front | that stern ways conj; thenceforth property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | haunt | past | the strong man's death not said here | Vanity's memory | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | die | the strong man | nom death «event 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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