The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 203
Those shepherd youths Tended him still, or sang beside his bed; And ofttimes o’er his face the tears of Leagh In passionate gust descended.
Who acts: shepherd youths, ofttimes · What happens: tend, sing, descend · To what, where: Orloff, bed
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 (shepherd youths, ofttimes), 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 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 youths | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 youths | compound |
| 3 | youths | youth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Tended | nsubj |
| 4 | Tended | tend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 Tended | obj |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 4 Tended | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sang | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 sang | cc |
| 9 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Tended | conj |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 bed | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bed | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sang | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ofttimes | punct |
| 14 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ofttimes | cc |
| 15 | ofttimes | ofttime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 descended | nsubj |
| 16 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 18 face | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 face | nmod:poss |
| 18 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ofttimes | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tears | det |
| 20 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 descended | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Leagh | case |
| 22 | Leagh | Leagh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 tears | nmod |
| 23 | In | in | ADP | _ | 25 gust | case |
| 24 | passionate | passionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gust | amod |
| 25 | gust | gust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tears | nmod |
| 26 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 Tended | parataxis |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Tended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tend | past | that shepherd youths | Orloff | still | vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | sing speech: express | past | that shepherd youths not said here | Orloff's bed | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside bed=Location | ||||
| 3 | descend | participle | ofttimes o'er Orloff's face | the tears of Leagh in passionate gust nsubj | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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