The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 94
The first is slow but certain: where thou liest Full three months thou must lie; then rise restored: The second is immediate: strength divine It pours like light into a warrior’s veins; Then dies its virtue, and the warrior dies!’
Who acts: first, thou, second, divine, warrior · What happens: be, lie, rise, restore, pour, die · To what, where: Full three months, strength divine, veins, virtue
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 (first, thou, second, divine), 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 first | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 slow | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | cop |
| 4 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 certain | cc |
| 6 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slow | conj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 liest | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 liest | advmod |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 liest | nsubj |
| 10 | liest | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | conj |
| 11 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 months | amod |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 months | nummod |
| 13 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 liest | obj |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 lie | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 lie | aux |
| 16 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 months | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 rise | punct |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 rise | advmod |
| 19 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 slow | conj |
| 20 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 rise | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 immediate | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 second | det |
| 23 | second | second | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 immediate | nsubj |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 immediate | cop |
| 25 | immediate | immediate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slow | conj |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 divine | punct |
| 27 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 divine | compound |
| 28 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 immediate | conj |
| 29 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 pours | nsubj |
| 30 | pours | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 divine | acl:relcl |
| 31 | like | like | ADP | _ | 32 light | case |
| 32 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 pours | obl |
| 33 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 veins | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 warrior | det |
| 35 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 veins | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 warrior | case |
| 37 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 pours | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 dies | punct |
| 39 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 dies | advmod |
| 40 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 slow | conj |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 virtue | nmod:poss |
| 42 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dies | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 dies | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 dies | cc |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 warrior | det |
| 46 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 dies | nsubj |
| 47 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 dies | conj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 dies | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 dies | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the first | slow property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the first not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | lie | present | thou | month | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lie | must | thou | Full three months not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location month=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | infinitive | the first not said here | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | restore | participle | the first not said here | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | present | the second | strength divine conj; immediate property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | pour | present | divine | strength divine not said here | a warrior's veins | like light | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent divine=Theme into vein=Destination | ||
| 9 | die | present | the first not said here | divine's virtue | then | tree rules | |||
| 10 | die | present | the warrior | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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