The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 37
‘That day the wise will serve Him; but the fool Will sport with Ogham stave, or dragon-fly That lights his spark--lo there--on dusky pool!
Who acts: fool, dragon fly, fly · What happens: serve, sport, light, spark · To what, where: creature, spark
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 (fool, dragon fly, fly), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 serve | punct |
| 2 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 day | det |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serve | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wise | det |
| 5 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 serve | aux |
| 7 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 serve | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 sport | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 sport | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fool | det |
| 12 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sport | nsubj |
| 13 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 sport | aux |
| 14 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serve | obl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 stave | case |
| 16 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stave | compound |
| 17 | stave | stave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sport | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lights | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 lights | cc |
| 20 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fly | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 dragon | punct |
| 22 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lights | nsubj |
| 23 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 lights | nsubj |
| 24 | lights | light | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 serve | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 spark | nmod:poss |
| 26 | spark | spark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lights | obj |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 lo | punct |
| 28 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 7 serve | discourse |
| 29 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 28 lo | advmod |
| 30 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 33 pool | punct |
| 31 | on | on | ADP | _ | 33 pool | case |
| 32 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 pool | amod |
| 33 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 serve | parataxis |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 serve | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | future | creature | there | day | dusky pool parataxis | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute | ||
| 2 | sport | future | the fool | with Ogham stave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | light | present | dragon fly | fly's spark | That nsubj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spark=Product | |||
| 4 | spark | fly | nom spark «event 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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