The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 16
For when she heard the wintry tempests raving, Fables she told of immemorial feuds, And warring Gods that still, for vengeance craving, Devastated some rival’s peaceful woods; And when the morning shone, serene and mild, She laughed and said, ‘These Gods are reconciled!’
Who acts: Deirdré, wintry tempests, vengeance craving, morning, you · What happens: hear, rave, tell, war, devastate, shine · To what, where: wintry tempests, Fables, peaceful woods, Gods · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Deirdré, wintry tempests, vengeance craving, morning), 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 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 4 heard | mark |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 heard | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 serene | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tempests | det |
| 6 | wintry | wintry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tempests | amod |
| 7 | tempests | tempest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obj |
| 8 | raving | rave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 tempests | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Fables | punct |
| 10 | Fables | fable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 told | nsubj |
| 12 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 Fables | acl:relcl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 feuds | case |
| 14 | immemorial | immemorial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 feuds | amod |
| 15 | feuds | feud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 told | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Gods | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Gods | cc |
| 18 | warring | war | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Gods | amod |
| 19 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 heard | obl |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 still | nsubj |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 Gods | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 craving | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 craving | case |
| 24 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 craving | compound |
| 25 | craving | craving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heard | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Devastated | punct |
| 27 | Devastated | devastate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 craving | acl |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 rival | det |
| 29 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 woods | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 rival | case |
| 31 | peaceful | peaceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 woods | amod |
| 32 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 Devastated | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 serene | punct |
| 34 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 serene | cc |
| 35 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 shone | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 morning | det |
| 37 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 shone | nsubj |
| 38 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 serene | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 shone | punct |
| 40 | serene | serene | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 mild | cc |
| 42 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 serene | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 laughed | punct |
| 44 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 laughed | nsubj |
| 45 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 serene | parataxis |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 said | cc |
| 47 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 laughed | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 reconciled | punct |
| 49 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 53 reconciled | punct |
| 50 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 51 Gods | det |
| 51 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 reconciled | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 reconciled | aux:pass |
| 53 | reconciled | reconcile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 said | ccomp |
| 54 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 53 reconciled | punct |
| 55 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 serene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Deirdré | the wintry tempests | Fables obl; warring Gods obl; vengeance craving conj | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tempest=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | rave speech: other | gerund | the wintry tempests not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | Deirdré | Fables not said here | of immemorial feuds | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fable=Recipient | |||
| 4 | war | gerund | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | devastate | participle | vengeance craving not said here | some rival's peaceful woods | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wood=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | shine | past | the morning | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | serene | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | laugh | past | Deirdré | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | say speech: assert | past | Deirdré not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 10 | reconcile | present · passive | this Gods | 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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