The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 56
The Gael is restless; lives on chance and change; The clan grows home-sick: victory in its grasp, Pines for the babe unkissed, or field unreaped: My counsel then is Aulnau’s.
Who acts: Gael, clan, victory, field · What happens: be, grow, unkiss, unreap, grasp · To what, where: counsel
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 (Gael, clan, victory, field), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Gael | det |
| 2 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 restless | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 restless | cop |
| 4 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 lives | punct |
| 6 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 restless | obl |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 chance | case |
| 8 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lives | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 change | cc |
| 10 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 chance | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 grows | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 clan | det |
| 13 | clan | clan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grows | nsubj |
| 14 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 restless | parataxis |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 17 sick | advmod |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 home | punct |
| 17 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 grows | xcomp |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 victory | punct |
| 19 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 unkissed | nsubj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 grasp | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 grasp | nmod:poss |
| 22 | grasp | grasp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 victory | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Pines | punct |
| 24 | Pines | pine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 unkissed | nsubj |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 babe | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 babe | det |
| 27 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Pines | nmod |
| 28 | unkissed | unkiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 grows | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unreaped | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 unreaped | cc |
| 31 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 unreaped | nsubj |
| 32 | unreaped | unreap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 unkissed | conj |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 unreaped | punct |
| 34 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 35 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 unreaped | obj |
| 36 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 38 Aulnau | advmod |
| 37 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 Aulnau | cop |
| 38 | Aulnau | Aulnau | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 unreaped | obl:agent |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Aulnau | case |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 restless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Gael | lives on chance and change obl; restless property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the clan | sick property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unkiss | past | victory in victory's grasp | Pines for the babe nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | unreap | participle | field | My counsel | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is | present | then | 's Aulnau | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | grasp | victory | nom grasp «cognition 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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