The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 18
Scorning King Conor’s law, O’er it in summer maidens tripped unseen, And told her tales of all they heard and saw, And flowers in May, and fruits in summer brought her, Or with her danced beside the moonlit water.
Who acts: O’er, tales, flowers · What happens: scorn, trip, tell, hear, see, bring · To what, where: law, tales, O’er, moonlit water · 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 (O’er, tales, flowers), 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 | Scorning | scorn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 tripped | advcl |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 law | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | flat |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 King | case |
| 5 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Scorning | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Scorning | punct |
| 7 | O’er | O'er | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tripped | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 O’er | appos |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 maidens | case |
| 10 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maidens | compound |
| 11 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 O’er | nmod |
| 12 | tripped | trip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tripped | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 tripped | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tales | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 tales | nmod |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 heard | nsubj |
| 22 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 tales | acl:relcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 heard | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 brought | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 brought | cc |
| 27 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 brought | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 May | case |
| 29 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 flowers | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fruits | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fruits | cc |
| 32 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 summer | case |
| 34 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fruits | nmod |
| 35 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | conj |
| 36 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 brought | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 her | punct |
| 38 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 her | cc |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 told | iobj |
| 41 | danced | dance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 her | acl |
| 42 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 45 water | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 water | det |
| 44 | moonlit | moonlit | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 water | amod |
| 45 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 danced | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 tripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorn | gerund | O’er in summer maidens not said here | King's law | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent law=Theme | ||||
| 2 | trip | past | O’er in summer maidens | unseen property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | O’er in summer maidens not said here | O’er's tales of all | O’er = o'er | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent her=Recipient tale=Topic | |||
| 4 | hear | past | tales = tale | O’er's tales of all not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | see | past | tales = tale not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | bring | past | flowers in May | O’er = o'er | fruits in summer nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination | |||
| 7 | dance | participle | the moonlit water | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside water=Location | |||||
| 8 | tell | O’er = o'er | nom tale «communication intransitive»: 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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