The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 35
As they sang Above that suffering face there passed a smile; And where that smile had lain there crept a tear; And in few minutes more asleep he sank Who had not slept nine days.
Who acts: guards, youth · What happens: sing, pass, lie, creep, sink, not sleep · To what, where: suffering face, smile, tear
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 (guards, youth), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sang | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sang | nsubj |
| 3 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crept | advcl |
| 4 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 7 face | case |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 face | det |
| 6 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 face | compound |
| 7 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sang | obl |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 passed | advmod |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sang | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 smile | det |
| 11 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 passed | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 lain | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lain | cc |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 lain | advmod |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 smile | det |
| 16 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 lain | aux |
| 18 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 crept | parataxis |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lain | advmod |
| 20 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tear | det |
| 22 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crept | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 asleep | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 asleep | cc |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 minutes | case |
| 26 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 minutes | amod |
| 27 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 asleep | obl |
| 28 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 29 asleep | advmod |
| 29 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 crept | advcl |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sank | nsubj |
| 31 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 asleep | advcl |
| 32 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 slept | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 slept | aux |
| 34 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 slept | advmod |
| 35 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sank | ccomp |
| 36 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 days | nummod |
| 37 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 slept | obl:unmarked |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | guards = guard | that suffering face | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above face=Location | ||||
| 2 | pass | past | guards = guard not said here | a smile | there | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme smile=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | lie | past · perfect · passive | that smile | there | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | creep | past | a tear | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tear=Theme | |||||
| 5 | sink | past | youth | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | not sleep | past · perfect · passive | day | Who nsubj:pass | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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