The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 68
Beside the girl stood Levarcam; she smiled, And spake; ‘Good sooth, your shaft hath hit its mark; Yea doubtless, you were born a prophet’s child!
Who acts: girl, shaft, Good sooth · What happens: stand, smile, have, hit, bear, mark · To what, where: Levarcam, spake, mark, you
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 (girl, shaft, Good sooth), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 3 girl | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 girl | det |
| 3 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | nsubj |
| 4 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Levarcam | Levarcam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stood | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 smiled | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 smiled | nsubj |
| 8 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spake | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 spake | cc |
| 11 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 smiled | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 sooth | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 sooth | punct |
| 14 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sooth | amod |
| 15 | sooth | sooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hath | punct |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 shaft | nmod:poss |
| 18 | shaft | shaft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hath | nsubj |
| 19 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 sooth | parataxis |
| 20 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stood | parataxis |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 mark | nmod:poss |
| 22 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hit | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 born | punct |
| 24 | Yea | yea | INTJ | _ | 29 born | discourse |
| 25 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Yea | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Yea | punct |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 born | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 born | aux:pass |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stood | conj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 prophet | det |
| 31 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 child | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 prophet | case |
| 33 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | obj |
| 34 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the girl | Levarcam | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer levarcam=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | smile | past | girl | spake | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | have | present | your shaft | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | hit | past | Good sooth | shaft's mark | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mark=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | bear | past · passive | you | a prophet's child obj | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary child=Patient | ||||
| 6 | mark | shaft | nom mark «cognition 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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