The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 22
Next day, while near them buzzed At noon the gilded insect swarm, he spake; ‘While lived Ferdīa wounds to thee were jest; Thy grief it is that drags thee to the pit; Grief; and for what?
Who acts: Cuchullain, Ferdīa, thee, grief · What happens: buzz, gild, speak, live, wound, be · To what, where: gilded insect swarm, jest · 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 (Cuchullain, Ferdīa, thee, grief), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buzzed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buzzed | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 7 buzzed | mark |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 buzzed | obl |
| 7 | buzzed | buzz | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | At | at | ADP | _ | 9 noon | case |
| 9 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buzzed | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 swarm | det |
| 11 | gilded | gild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 swarm | amod |
| 12 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swarm | compound |
| 13 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buzzed | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spake | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spake | nsubj |
| 16 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swarm | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 lived | punct |
| 19 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 20 lived | mark |
| 20 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buzzed | conj |
| 21 | Ferdīa | Ferdīa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 wounds | nsubj |
| 22 | wounds | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 lived | ccomp |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 jest | mark |
| 24 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 jest | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 jest | cop |
| 26 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 wounds | xcomp |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 drags | punct |
| 28 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 grief | nmod:poss |
| 29 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drags | nsubj |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 drags | nsubj |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 drags | cop |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 drags | mark |
| 33 | drags | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 buzzed | conj |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 drags | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 pit | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 pit | det |
| 37 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drags | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 Grief | punct |
| 39 | Grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 drags | obl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 what | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 what | cc |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 what | case |
| 43 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 buzzed | obj |
| 44 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 buzzed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buzz | past | the gilded insect swarm and spake | day; noon | near men = man; what obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | gild | participle | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | Cuchullain | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | live | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | wound | present | Ferdīa | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | thee | jest | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is | present | Thy grief | to the pit; Grief obl; thee obj; drag property | tree rules |
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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