The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 86
Then, from his seat in that high hall remote Whereon all day in silence he had sate Advanced, unguided, to that Infant’s cot Cathbad, the Druid old, and man of Fate, And o’er that infant held his arms out-spread, And raised to heaven his grey and sightless head
Who acts: O’er · What happens: have, sate, hold, spread, raise · To what, where: Advanced, Cathbad, arms, grey head, heaven
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 (O’er), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 seat | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 seat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Then | obl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 remote | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 remote | nsubj |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 remote | amod |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 remote | compound |
| 10 | remote | remote | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seat | nmod |
| 11 | Whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 remote | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 had | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 silence | case |
| 15 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 day | nmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Whereon | advcl:relcl |
| 18 | sate | sate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 had | xcomp |
| 19 | Advanced | Advanced | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sate | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 unguided | punct |
| 21 | unguided | unguided | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Advanced | amod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Cathbad | punct |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 Cathbad | case |
| 24 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 25 Infant | det |
| 25 | Infant | Infant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 cot | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Infant | case |
| 27 | cot | cot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Cathbad | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Cathbad | Cathbad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 sate | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 old | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 old | det |
| 31 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 old | compound |
| 32 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Cathbad | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 man | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 man | cc |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Cathbad | appos |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Fate | case |
| 37 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 man | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 o’er | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 o’er | cc |
| 40 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Cathbad | appos |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 held | nsubj |
| 42 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 held | nsubj |
| 43 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 o’er | acl:relcl |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 arms | nmod:poss |
| 45 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 held | obj |
| 46 | out | out | ADV | _ | 48 spread | advmod |
| 47 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 46 out | punct |
| 48 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 held | advcl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 raised | punct |
| 50 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 raised | cc |
| 51 | raised | raise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 had | conj |
| 52 | to | to | ADP | _ | 53 heaven | case |
| 53 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 raised | obl |
| 54 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 head | nmod:poss |
| 55 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 head | amod |
| 56 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 57 sightless | cc |
| 57 | sightless | sightless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 grey | conj |
| 58 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 raised | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | O’er = o'er | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sate | infinitive | O’er = o'er not said here | Advanced | Cathbad that Infant's cot | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Instrument advanced=Theme | |||
| 3 | hold | past | o’er | O’er's arms | infant nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Theme | |||
| 4 | spread | participle | o’er not said here | out property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | raise | participle | O’er = o'er not said here | O’er's grey head | heaven | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme to heaven=Destination |
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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