The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 5
Their ‘songs in the night season,’ the swan-song of a long dying, wafted over unstable waters for the solace of the strong ones dwelling on the land, imply that the martial bards of old knew in part the higher and serener function of poetry.
Who acts: swan song, songs, strong ones, martial bards, sufferers · What happens: die, waft, dwell, imply, know, sing · To what, where: unstable waters, land, higher function, part, strong ones
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 (swan song, songs, strong ones, martial bards), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 songs | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 songs | punct |
| 3 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wafted | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 season | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 season | det |
| 6 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 season | compound |
| 7 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 songs | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 song | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 13 song | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 song | det |
| 11 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 song | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 swan | punct |
| 13 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 songs | conj |
| 14 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 dying | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 dying | det |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 dying | amod |
| 17 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 song | acl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wafted | punct |
| 19 | wafted | waft | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | over | over | ADP | _ | 22 waters | case |
| 21 | unstable | unstable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 waters | amod |
| 22 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 wafted | obl |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 solace | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 solace | det |
| 25 | solace | solace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wafted | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 ones | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ones | det |
| 28 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 ones | amod |
| 29 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 solace | nmod |
| 30 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 ones | acl |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 land | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 land | det |
| 33 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dwelling | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 imply | punct |
| 35 | imply | imply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wafted | conj |
| 36 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 knew | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 bards | det |
| 38 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bards | amod |
| 39 | bards | bard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 knew | nsubj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 old | case |
| 41 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 bards | nmod |
| 42 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 imply | advcl |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 part | case |
| 44 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 knew | obl |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 function | det |
| 46 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 49 function | amod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 serener | cc |
| 48 | serener | serene | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 46 higher | conj |
| 49 | function | function | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 knew | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 poetry | case |
| 51 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 function | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 wafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | gerund | the swan song not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | waft | past | sufferers's songs in the night season ' the swan song | unstable waters | for the solace of the strong ones | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over water=Location | |||
| 3 | dwell | gerund | the strong ones not said here | the land | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on land=Location | ||||
| 4 | imply | infinitive | sufferers's songs in the night season ' the swan song not said here | vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 5 | know | past | the martial bards of old | the higher function of poetry | part | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer function=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | sing | sufferers = sufferer | in the night season | nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=obl | |||||
| 7 | solace | the strong ones | nom solace «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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