The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 4
Under the trials of nine centuries those sufferers alone retain a perpetual childhood; their father’s house, and the still lake before it, stand ever before their imagination; and the burden of the years but falls on them for a moment, to be flung aside for ever.
Who acts: sufferers, lake · What happens: retain, stand, fling, try, imagine, burden · To what, where: perpetual childhood, trials, imagination, nine centuries, years
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sufferers, lake), 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 | Under | under | ADP | _ | 3 trials | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 trials | det |
| 3 | trials | trial | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 retain | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 centuries | case |
| 5 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 centuries | nummod |
| 6 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 trials | nmod |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 sufferers | det |
| 8 | sufferers | sufferer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 retain | nsubj |
| 9 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 retain | advmod |
| 10 | retain | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 childhood | det |
| 12 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 childhood | compound |
| 13 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retain | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 house | punct |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retain | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stand | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 stand | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 lake | det |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 lake | advmod |
| 23 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stand | nsubj |
| 24 | before | before | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lake | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 stand | punct |
| 27 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 retain | conj |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 stand | advmod |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 31 imagination | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 imagination | nmod:poss |
| 31 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 stand | obl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 burden | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 burden | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 burden | det |
| 35 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 retain | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 years | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 years | det |
| 38 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 burden | nmod |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 falls | cc |
| 40 | falls | fall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 burden | conj |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 them | case |
| 42 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 falls | nmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 moment | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 moment | det |
| 45 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 burden | nmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 flung | punct |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 flung | mark |
| 48 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 49 flung | aux:pass |
| 49 | flung | fling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 retain | parataxis |
| 50 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 49 flung | advmod |
| 51 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 ever | case |
| 52 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 49 flung | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 retain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retain | present | that sufferers | a perpetual childhood | the trials of nine centuries | sufferers's father's house obl; the burden of the years for a moment but falls on falls obl; alone property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | the lake before childhood | sufferers's imagination | ever | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before imagination=Location | |||
| 3 | fling | to-infinitive · passive | aside property | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 4 | try | nine centuries | nom trial «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | imagine | sufferers = sufferer | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | burden | the years | for a moment | nom burden «cognition transitive»: of=patient for=obl |
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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