The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 124
There put she forth whatever subtlest art In seeming-simple innocence disguised Imagines of persuasive, whatsoe’er Delicatest craft of female witcheries Potent for man’s destruction can devise, To bend that warrior’s will.
Who acts: disguised Imagines, Potent, man · What happens: put, disguise, craft, devise, bend, destroy · To what, where: Rochad, seeming simple innocence, female witcheries
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 (disguised Imagines, Potent, man), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 put | expl |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | obj |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 2 put | advmod |
| 5 | whatever | whatever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 art | det:predet |
| 6 | subtlest | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 art | amod |
| 7 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 innocence | case |
| 9 | seeming | seeming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 innocence | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeming | punct |
| 11 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 innocence | amod |
| 12 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 13 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 Imagines | amod |
| 14 | Imagines | Imagine | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 craft | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 whatsoe’er | case |
| 16 | persuasive | persuasive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 whatsoe’er | amod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 persuasive | punct |
| 18 | whatsoe’er | whatsoe'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 craft | compound |
| 19 | Delicatest | Delicatest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 craft | compound |
| 20 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 innocence | acl:relcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 witcheries | case |
| 22 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 witcheries | amod |
| 23 | witcheries | witchery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 craft | nmod |
| 24 | Potent | potent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 devise | nsubj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 destruction | case |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 man | case |
| 28 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Potent | nmod |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 devise | aux |
| 30 | devise | devise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 witcheries | acl:relcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 bend | punct |
| 32 | To | to | PART | _ | 33 bend | mark |
| 33 | bend | bend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 devise | conj |
| 34 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 warrior | det |
| 35 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 will | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 warrior | case |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 bend | advcl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Rochad | seeming simple innocence; there | whatever subtlest art obl:unmarked; forth property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme in innocence=Destination | |||
| 2 | disguise | participle | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | craft | disguised Imagines | seeming simple innocence not said here | of female witcheries | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | devise | can | Potent for man's destruction | female witcheries not said here | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witchery=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bend | to-infinitive | Potent for man's destruction not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | destroy | man | nom destruction «act transitive»: 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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