The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 137
Forlorn it lay On hill and heath and plain and distant mere, Forlorner on the haggard face--for oft A face, still fair, in anguish antedates Its future--of that woman as she knelt, She knelt at last, low on that threshold low.
Who acts: Forlorn, woman · What happens: lie, antedate, kneel · To what, where: hill, future, anguish, woman, last low
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 (Forlorn, woman), 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 | Forlorn | forlorn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lay | nsubj |
| 3 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | On | on | ADP | _ | 5 hill | case |
| 5 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 heath | cc |
| 7 | heath | heath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hill | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mere | cc |
| 9 | plain | plain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mere | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 distant | cc |
| 11 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 plain | conj |
| 12 | mere | mere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hill | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Forlorner | punct |
| 14 | Forlorner | Forlorner | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 mere | appos |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 face | det |
| 17 | haggard | haggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 face | compound |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Forlorner | nmod |
| 19 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 face | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 21 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | amod |
| 22 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 face | det |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lay | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 fair | punct |
| 25 | still | still | ADV | _ | 26 fair | advmod |
| 26 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 face | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 antedates | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 anguish | case |
| 29 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 antedates | obl |
| 30 | antedates | antedate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 31 | Its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 future | nmod:poss |
| 32 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 antedates | obj |
| 33 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 woman | punct |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 woman | case |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 woman | det |
| 36 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 antedates | obl |
| 37 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 knelt | mark |
| 38 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 knelt | nsubj |
| 39 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 woman | acl:relcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 knelt | punct |
| 41 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 knelt | nsubj |
| 42 | knelt | kneel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 lay | conj |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 low | case |
| 44 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 low | amod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 last | punct |
| 46 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 knelt | obl |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 threshold | case |
| 48 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 threshold | det |
| 49 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 knelt | obl |
| 50 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 threshold | amod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | Forlorn | hill and heath and plain mere | for a oft face; Orient nsubj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hill=Location | |||
| 2 | antedate | present | Forlorn not said here | Orient's future | anguish | of that woman | tree rules | ||
| 3 | kneel | past | woman | that woman not said here | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic | ||||
| 4 | kneel | past | woman | last low | on that threshold | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at low=Location |
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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