The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 84
Neath the raftered roof A far-sunk window opened to the sky, While purple twilight wove with warp and woof O’er deepening heavens its dewy mantle dark, And dusking woods, that hour unseen; when, hark
Who acts: sunk window, purple twilight · What happens: rafter, open, weave, deepen, dusk · To what, where: sky, heavens, woods
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 (sunk window, purple twilight), 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 | Neath | neath | ADP | _ | 4 roof | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 roof | det |
| 3 | raftered | rafter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 roof | amod |
| 4 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obl |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 6 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 sunk | amod |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 far | punct |
| 8 | sunk | sunk | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 window | amod |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 sky | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sky | det |
| 13 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wove | punct |
| 15 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 wove | mark |
| 16 | purple | purple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 twilight | amod |
| 17 | twilight | twilight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wove | nsubj |
| 18 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 opened | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 warp | case |
| 20 | warp | warp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wove | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 woof | cc |
| 22 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 warp | conj |
| 23 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 woof | appos |
| 24 | deepening | deepen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 wove | advcl |
| 25 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 deepening | obj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 mantle | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dewy | dewy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mantle | amod |
| 28 | mantle | mantle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 deepening | obj |
| 29 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 mantle | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 dusking | punct |
| 31 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 dusking | cc |
| 32 | dusking | dusk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 opened | advcl |
| 33 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 dusking | obj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 unseen | punct |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 unseen | mark |
| 36 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 unseen | compound |
| 37 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 dusking | advcl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 when | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 opened | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 hark | punct |
| 41 | hark | hark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | parataxis |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rafter | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | open | past | a sunk window | the sky | neath the raftered roof; hark parataxis | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sky=Recipient | |||
| 3 | weave | past | purple twilight | with warp and woof | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | deepen | gerund | purple twilight not said here | heavens | twilight's dewy mantle obj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | dusk | gerund | a sunk window not said here | woods | 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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