The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 78
Lo, a ray Of her sweet countenance lives in theirs this day!’
Who acts: ray · What happens: live, ray · To what, where: sweet countenance
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 (ray), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 lives | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 ray | det |
| 4 | ray | ray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 5 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 8 countenance | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 countenance | amod |
| 8 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ray | nmod |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 theirs | case |
| 11 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 lives | obl |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 day | det |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lives | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | a ray of ray's sweet countenance | day | in gifts = gift | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in their=Location | |||
| 2 | ray | ray's sweet countenance | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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