The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 36
Thus likewise God, hearing His creatures moan, Will flash on them, and cry, “Mine own, mine own!”
Who acts: God, creatures · What happens: hear, moan, flash, cry, own · 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 (God, creatures), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 God | advmod |
| 2 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 3 God | advmod |
| 3 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 flash | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 God | acl |
| 6 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 creatures | nmod:poss |
| 7 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moan | nsubj |
| 8 | moan | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hearing | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 God | punct |
| 10 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 flash | aux |
| 11 | flash | flash | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 them | case |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 flash | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cry | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cry | cc |
| 16 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 flash | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 own | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 own | punct |
| 19 | Mine | mine | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 own | nmod:poss |
| 20 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cry | ccomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 own | punct |
| 22 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 own | nsubj |
| 23 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 flash | conj |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 flash | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 flash | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | God not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | moan | present | fly's creatures | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | flash | future | God | on woods = wood | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location | ||||
| 4 | cry speech: express | infinitive | God not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | own in a quote | present | God | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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