The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 14
Nor spade, nor plough Till then that virgin region had profaned; Nor sound, save Shenan’s murmur, stirred therein.
Who acts: plough, Nor spade, Shenan · What happens: profane, save, stir, murmur · To what, where: virgin region, murmur
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 (plough, Nor spade, Shenan), 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 | Nor | nor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spade | amod |
| 2 | spade | spade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 plough | punct |
| 4 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 plough | cc |
| 5 | plough | plough | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spade | appos |
| 6 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 12 profaned | mark |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 profaned | advmod |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 region | det |
| 9 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 region | compound |
| 10 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 profaned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 profaned | aux |
| 12 | profaned | profane | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 plough | acl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sound | punct |
| 14 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 sound | compound |
| 15 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sound | punct |
| 17 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | Shenan | Shenan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 murmur | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Shenan | case |
| 20 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 save | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 stirred | punct |
| 22 | stirred | stir | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 murmur | acl |
| 23 | therein | therein | ADV | _ | 22 stirred | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 save | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | profane | past · perfect · passive | plough not said here | that virgin region | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | save | infinitive | Nor spade | Shenan's murmur | Nor sound nsubj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent murmur=Theme | |||
| 3 | stir | participle | Shenan's murmur not said here | therein property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | murmur | Shenan | nom murmur «event 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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