The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 206
He, morn and eve In those clear currents laid, renewed his youth; And, pure as infant’s, came again that flesh Where festered late his wounds.
Who acts: virtue, morn, flesh · What happens: morn, lay, renew, come, fester, wound · To what, where: clear currents, youth, wounds
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 (virtue, morn, flesh), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 morn | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morn | punct |
| 3 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 renewed | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eve | cc |
| 5 | eve | eve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 morn | conj |
| 6 | In | in | ADP | _ | 9 currents | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 currents | det |
| 8 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 currents | amod |
| 9 | currents | current | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 morn | nmod |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 currents | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morn | punct |
| 12 | renewed | renew | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 youth | nmod:poss |
| 14 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 renewed | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 pure | punct |
| 16 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 pure | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 And | punct |
| 18 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 renewed | parataxis |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 infant | case |
| 20 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 pure | conj |
| 21 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 20 infant | case |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 renewed | parataxis |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 23 came | advmod |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 flesh | det |
| 26 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 27 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 28 festered | advmod |
| 28 | festered | fester | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 flesh | acl |
| 29 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 28 festered | advmod |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 31 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 festered | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 renewed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | morn | virtue | that clear currents | eve conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lay | participle | that clear currents not said here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | renew | past | morn and eve | virtue's youth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient | ||||
| 4 | come | past | that flesh | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fester | participle | virtue's wounds | late property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location wound=Theme | ||||
| 6 | wound | virtue | nom wound «state 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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