The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 53
Time on her brow had graved no characters; Sorrow no splendour stol’n from that wide eye That ever, as the legend old avers, Reposed on some far seat of sovereignty By others hoped;--to her alone revealed Beyond sea-cloud, and ocean’s heaving field.
Who acts: legend, others, ocean ’s · What happens: grave, sorrow, aver, repose, hope, reveal · To what, where: characters, splendour stol’n, wide eye, far seat, Beyond, Scota
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 (legend, others, ocean ’s), 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 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 graved | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 brow | case |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 brow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Time | nmod |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 graved | aux |
| 6 | graved | grave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 characters | det |
| 8 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 graved | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sorrow | punct |
| 10 | Sorrow | sorrow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 graved | parataxis |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 stol’n | det |
| 12 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stol’n | compound |
| 13 | stol’n | stol'n | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sorrow | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 eye | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 eye | det |
| 16 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eye | amod |
| 17 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Sorrow | obl |
| 18 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 ever | nsubj |
| 19 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 17 eye | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 avers | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 avers | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 legend | det |
| 23 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 avers | nsubj |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 legend | amod |
| 25 | avers | aver | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 Sorrow | advcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Reposed | punct |
| 27 | Reposed | repose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 avers | xcomp |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 seat | case |
| 29 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 seat | det |
| 30 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 seat | amod |
| 31 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Reposed | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 sovereignty | case |
| 33 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 seat | nmod |
| 34 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 36 hoped | mark |
| 35 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 hoped | nsubj |
| 36 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 Reposed | advcl |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 graved | punct |
| 38 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 42 revealed | punct |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 her | case |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 revealed | obl |
| 41 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 42 revealed | advmod |
| 42 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 graved | parataxis |
| 43 | Beyond | Beyond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 revealed | obj |
| 44 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 cloud | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 sea | punct |
| 46 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 revealed | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 field | punct |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 field | cc |
| 49 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 ’s | compound |
| 50 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 field | nsubj |
| 51 | heaving | heave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 52 field | amod |
| 52 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 revealed | conj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 graved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grave | past · perfect | no characters | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sorrow | infinitive | no splendour stol’n | that wide eye | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | aver | present | the legend | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | repose | participle | the legend not said here | some far seat of sovereignty | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on seat=Location | ||||
| 5 | hope | past | others | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 6 | reveal | past | Beyond | Scota | sea cloud obj; alone property | tree rules | |||
| 7 | heave | gerund | vn push-12 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | field | ocean ’s | tree rules |
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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