The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 46
In Deirdré’s absence, if a leaf but stirred She shook; and endless tales, and legends told To keep her young lamb safe within the fold.
Who acts: child, legends, Deirdré · What happens: stir, shake, tell, keep, absent · To what, where: legends, young lamb, absence · 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 (child, legends, Deirdré), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 absence | case |
| 2 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 absence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Deirdré | case |
| 4 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 leaf | punct |
| 6 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 leaf | mark |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 leaf | det |
| 8 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 absence | appos |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 stirred | cc |
| 10 | stirred | stir | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 leaf | conj |
| 11 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 shook | nsubj |
| 12 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stirred | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 tales | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tales | cc |
| 15 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tales | amod |
| 16 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 absence | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 legends | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 legends | cc |
| 19 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 tales | conj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 legends | acl |
| 21 | To | to | PART | _ | 22 keep | mark |
| 22 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 told | xcomp |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 24 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lamb | amod |
| 25 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keep | obj |
| 26 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 keep | xcomp |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 29 fold | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 fold | det |
| 29 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 safe | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 tales | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stir | past | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | shake | past | child | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | participle | legends not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | legends not said here | child's young lamb | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||
| 6 | absent | Deirdré | nom absence «state transitive»: 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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