The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 80
Thus Meave a circle traced round Uladh’s realm, And heard the murmur of its three great seas, Yet nothing wrought of perdurable fame.
Who acts: you · What happens: meave, trace, hear, murmur · To what, where: circle, murmur, three great seas
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 (you), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 Meave | advmod |
| 2 | Meave | meave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 circle | det |
| 4 | circle | circle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Meave | obj |
| 5 | traced | trace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 circle | acl |
| 6 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 realm | case |
| 7 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 realm | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Uladh | case |
| 9 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 traced | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heard | punct |
| 11 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 heard | cc |
| 12 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Meave | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 murmur | det |
| 14 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heard | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 seas | case |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 seas | nmod:poss |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 seas | nummod |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 seas | amod |
| 19 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 murmur | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nothing | punct |
| 21 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 nothing | cc |
| 22 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 heard | conj |
| 23 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 nothing | amod |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 fame | case |
| 25 | perdurable | perdurable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fame | amod |
| 26 | fame | fame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wrought | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Meave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meave | imperative | you not said here | a circle | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | trace | participle | a circle not said here | round Uladh's realm | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | the murmur of murmur's three great seas | nothing conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer murmur=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | murmur | murmur's three great seas | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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