The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 63
And still whate’er she heard of good and pure Within the virgin’s memory held its place Like names on tree-stems graved that aye endure: Of questionable things survived no trace: They passed, like letters written in a rill That upward laughs to heaven, re-virgined still.
Who acts: whate’er, aye, questionable things, things, upward · What happens: hear, hold, grave, endure, survive, pass · To what, where: whate’er, place, trace, letters, rill
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 (whate’er, aye, questionable things, things), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 2 | still | still | ADV | _ | 3 whate’er | advmod |
| 3 | whate’er | whate'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | nsubj |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heard | nsubj |
| 5 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 whate’er | acl:relcl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 good | case |
| 7 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heard | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pure | cc |
| 9 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 good | conj |
| 10 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 14 memory | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 virgin | det |
| 12 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 memory | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 virgin | case |
| 14 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heard | obl |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 graved | advcl |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obj |
| 18 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 19 names | case |
| 19 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 graved | obl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 stems | case |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stems | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 tree | punct |
| 23 | stems | stem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 names | nmod |
| 24 | graved | grave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 25 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 endure | mark |
| 26 | aye | aye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 endure | nsubj |
| 27 | endure | endure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 graved | advcl |
| 28 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 survived | punct |
| 29 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 31 things | case |
| 30 | questionable | questionable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 things | amod |
| 31 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 survived | nsubj |
| 32 | survived | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 graved | conj |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 trace | det |
| 34 | trace | trace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 survived | obj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 passed | punct |
| 36 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 passed | nsubj |
| 37 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 survived | parataxis |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 letters | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 40 letters | case |
| 40 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 passed | obl |
| 41 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 letters | acl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 rill | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 rill | det |
| 44 | rill | rill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 written | obl |
| 45 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 46 upward | det |
| 46 | upward | upward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughs | nsubj |
| 47 | laughs | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 rill | acl:relcl |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 heaven | case |
| 49 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 laughs | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 re-virgined | punct |
| 51 | re-virgined | re-virgin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 passed | conj |
| 52 | still | still | ADV | _ | 51 re-virgined | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 graved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | whate’er = whate'er | whate’er not said here | of good; within the virgin's memory | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer whate'er=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | hold | past | whate’er | memory's place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 3 | grave | past | like names on tree stems | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | endure | present | aye | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | survive | past | questionable things | no trace | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme trace=Circumstance | ||||
| 6 | pass | past | things = thing | like letters | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | write | participle | letters not said here | a rill | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in rill=Destination | ||||
| 8 | laugh | present | that upward | a rill not said here | to heaven | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rill=Theme | |||
| 9 | re-virgin | participle | things = thing not said here | still | 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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