The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 132
She saw her power was gone; And all that posthumous life late hers sank back In embers lost and ashes.
Who acts: Rochad, power, that, posthumous life · What happens: see, be, life, sink back, lose · To what, where: embers · 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rochad, power, that, posthumous life), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 power | nmod:poss |
| 4 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | cop |
| 6 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sank | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sank | cc |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 life | det:predet |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 life | nsubj |
| 11 | posthumous | posthumous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 life | amod |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sank | nsubj |
| 13 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 sank | advmod |
| 14 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sank | nsubj |
| 15 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | parataxis |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 sank | advmod |
| 17 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 embers | case |
| 18 | embers | ember | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sank | obl |
| 19 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 embers | acl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ashes | cc |
| 21 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 lost | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Rochad | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Rochad's power | gone property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | life | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | sink back | past | all posthumous life | embers | Rochad nsubj; late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | lose | participle | embers not said here | ashes conj | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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