The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 219
Thereon the morn Laughed, dewy-bright: and lo! where long had lain Pallor of death, now burned a healthful red: Not less they dared not touch him; since with him _Geisa_ it was if any broke his rest.
Who acts: morn, Came · What happens: laugh, have, burn, touch, be · To what, where: lain Pallor, Pallor
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 (morn, Came), 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 | Thereon | thereon | ADV | _ | 4 Laughed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morn | det |
| 3 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Laughed | nsubj |
| 4 | Laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Laughed | punct |
| 6 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bright | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 dewy | punct |
| 8 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Laughed | advcl |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 11 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 15 had | discourse |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 lo | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 long | advmod |
| 14 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Laughed | conj |
| 16 | lain | lain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Pallor | amod |
| 17 | Pallor | Pallor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 death | case |
| 19 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Pallor | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 burned | punct |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 burned | advmod |
| 22 | burned | burn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 red | det |
| 24 | healthful | healthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 red | amod |
| 25 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 burned | xcomp |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 touch | punct |
| 27 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 less | advmod |
| 28 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 32 touch | advmod |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 touch | nsubj |
| 30 | dared | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 touch | aux |
| 31 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 dared | advmod |
| 32 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 red | parataxis |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 touch | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 him | punct |
| 35 | since | since | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 him | case |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 had | obl |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 39 | Geisa | Geisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 40 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 broke | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 broke | cop |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 broke | mark |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 45 broke | nsubj |
| 45 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 Laughed | parataxis |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 rest | nmod:poss |
| 47 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 broke | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Laughed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | laugh | past | the morn | thereon property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | have | past | the morn not said here | lain Pallor of death | since Pallor | Geisa obj; long property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | burn | past | the morn not said here | now | red property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | touch | past | Came | Pallor | less property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=Co-Theme | |||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | morn | Pallor's rest obj; break property | tree rules |
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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