The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 133
Of his toils Nought spake he; but their hearts who saw him swelled And many marvelled why they late were sad: Again the laugh; again the tale; the song-- Then came a change.
Who acts: hearts, Ere, many, toils · What happens: see, swell, marvell, late, be, come · To what, where: Ere, Nought spake, change
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hearts, Ere, many, toils), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 5 spake | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 spake | nmod:poss |
| 3 | toils | toil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 spake | nsubj |
| 4 | Nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 5 spake | compound |
| 5 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sad | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 swelled | nsubj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 swelled | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 swelled | cc |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 swelled | nsubj |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 hearts | acl:relcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spake | acl:relcl |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 marvelled | cc |
| 16 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 marvelled | nsubj |
| 17 | marvelled | marvell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 swelled | conj |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 late | advmod |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 late | nsubj |
| 20 | late | late | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 marvelled | ccomp |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 sad | cop |
| 22 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 laugh | punct |
| 24 | Again | again | ADV | _ | 26 laugh | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 laugh | det |
| 26 | laugh | laugh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sad | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 tale | punct |
| 28 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 tale | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tale | det |
| 30 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sad | conj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 song | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 song | det |
| 33 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tale | conj |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 came | punct |
| 35 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 36 came | advmod |
| 36 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 tale | parataxis |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 change | det |
| 38 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 came | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | toils's hearts | Ere | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | swell | past | Ere | Ere's Nought spake toils not said here | toils's hearts nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient speak=Extent | |||
| 3 | marvell | past | many | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | late | past | toils = toil | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | past | of Ere's Nought spake toils; the laugh conj; the tale and the song conj; sad property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | come | past | a change | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location change=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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