The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 14
Impassioned friendships hers with every kind: To her the Robin came; to her the Hare; And still with insight flashed from heart to mind, She guessed their lives in tree or bosky lair, Sharing their vernal joys, and, when the snows Besieged their haunts, condoling with their woes.
Who acts: Impassioned friendships, insight, snows, friendships · What happens: impassion, come, flash, mind, guess, share · To what, where: Deirdré, insight, heart, lives, tree, vernal joys
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Impassioned friendships, insight, snows, friendships), 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 | Impassioned | impassion | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 friendships | amod |
| 2 | friendships | friendship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 came | nsubj |
| 3 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friendships | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 kind | case |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kind | det |
| 6 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 friendships | nmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
| 8 | To | to | ADP | _ | 9 her | case |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Robin | det |
| 11 | Robin | Robin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 came | nsubj |
| 12 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 her | punct |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 came | obl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Hare | det |
| 17 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 her | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 guessed | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 guessed | cc |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 insight | advmod |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 insight | case |
| 22 | insight | insight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 guessed | nsubj |
| 23 | flashed | flash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 insight | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 flashed | obl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 mind | mark |
| 27 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 flashed | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 guessed | punct |
| 29 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 guessed | nsubj |
| 30 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 came | conj |
| 31 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 lives | nmod:poss |
| 32 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 guessed | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 tree | case |
| 34 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 guessed | obl |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 lair | cc |
| 36 | bosky | bosky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 lair | amod |
| 37 | lair | lair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 tree | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Sharing | punct |
| 39 | Sharing | share | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 guessed | advcl |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 joys | nmod:poss |
| 41 | vernal | vernal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 joys | amod |
| 42 | joys | joy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 Sharing | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Besieged | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 Besieged | cc |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 Besieged | punct |
| 46 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 49 Besieged | advmod |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 snows | det |
| 48 | snows | snow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 Besieged | nsubj |
| 49 | Besieged | besiege | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 Sharing | conj |
| 50 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 haunts | nmod:poss |
| 51 | haunts | haunt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 Besieged | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 condoling | punct |
| 53 | condoling | condole | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 49 Besieged | advcl |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 woes | case |
| 55 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 56 woes | nmod:poss |
| 56 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 condoling | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impassion | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | Impassioned friendships Deirdré with every kind | Deirdré | to Deirdré; the Robin nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to she=Initial_Location to she=Destination | |||
| 3 | flash | participle | insight not said here | heart | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mind | to-infinitive | vn care-88.1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | guess | past | insight | friendships's lives | tree or bosky lair | Deirdré nsubj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||
| 6 | share | gerund | insight not said here | friendships's vernal joys | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | besiege | past | the snows | friendships's haunts | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | condole | gerund | the snows not said here | with friendships's woes | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | joy | friendships = friendship | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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