The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 30
The Druid answered, dubious, still refining With stress and strain of profluent words that left The problem’s jet-black surface smooth and shining But ne’er the mystery’s heart of marble cleft, And ended; ‘God is God:--but ah, the woe!
Who acts: Druid, stress, profluent words · What happens: answer, refine, leave, shine, end, be · To what, where: jet black surface, heart, woe, God God
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 (Druid, stress, profluent words), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Druid | det |
| 2 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dubious | punct |
| 5 | dubious | dubious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 answered | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 refining | punct |
| 7 | still | still | ADV | _ | 8 refining | advmod |
| 8 | refining | refine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 answered | advcl |
| 9 | With | with | ADP | _ | 10 stress | case |
| 10 | stress | stress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 refining | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 strain | cc |
| 12 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stress | conj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 words | case |
| 14 | profluent | profluent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 strain | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 left | nsubj |
| 17 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stress | acl:relcl |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 problem | det |
| 19 | problem | problem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surface | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 problem | case |
| 21 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 surface | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 jet | punct |
| 23 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 surface | amod |
| 24 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 left | obj |
| 25 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 refining | xcomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shining | cc |
| 27 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 refining | conj |
| 28 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 29 ne’er | cc |
| 29 | ne’er | ne' | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 27 shining | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 mystery | det |
| 31 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 mystery | case |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shining | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cleft | case |
| 35 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cleft | amod |
| 36 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 heart | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 ended | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 ended | cc |
| 39 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 answered | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 God | punct |
| 41 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 God | punct |
| 42 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 God | amod |
| 43 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 God | cop |
| 44 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 ended | obj |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 God | punct |
| 46 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 51 woe | punct |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 woe | cc |
| 48 | ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 51 woe | discourse |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 ah | punct |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 woe | det |
| 51 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 ended | obl |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the Druid | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | refine | gerund | the Druid not said here | still | with stress and strain of profluent words; smooth property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with stress=Instrument | |||
| 3 | leave | past | stress and strain of profluent words | the problem's jet black surface | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surface=Theme | ||||
| 4 | shine | gerund | the Druid not said here | the mystery's heart of marble cleft | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent heart=Theme | ||||
| 5 | end | past | the Druid not said here | the woe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | God God | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | strain | profluent words | nom strain «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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