The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 10
Deirdré besides, on Naisi’s music musing-- That strain far-famed she once had heard in dream-- Through some strange craft of Nature’s sweet infusing Unconscious copied it.
Who acts: Deirdré, music, That, sweet, Unconscious · What happens: beside, muse, strain, fame, hear, infuse · To what, where: music, dream, sweet
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Deirdré, music, That, sweet), 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 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 besides | nsubj |
| 2 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 music | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 music | case |
| 5 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 music | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Naisi | case |
| 7 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 besides | obl |
| 8 | musing | muse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 music | acl |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 strain | punct |
| 10 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 strain | nsubj |
| 11 | strain | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 besides | parataxis |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 famed | advmod |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 far | punct |
| 14 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 strain | ccomp |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 heard | advmod |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | aux |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 strain | parataxis |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 dream | case |
| 20 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | obl |
| 21 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 craft | punct |
| 22 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 25 craft | case |
| 23 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 craft | det |
| 24 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 craft | amod |
| 25 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 sweet | case |
| 27 | Nature | Nature | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 sweet | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 Nature | case |
| 29 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 craft | nmod |
| 30 | infusing | infuse | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 sweet | acl |
| 31 | Unconscious | Unconscious | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 copied | nsubj |
| 32 | copied | copy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 infusing | ccomp |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 copied | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beside | present | Deirdré | Naisi's music | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | muse | gerund | Naisi's music not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | strain | present | That | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fame | participle | That not said here | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | Deirdré | dream | some strange craft of Nature's sweet conj; once property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | infuse | gerund | Nature's sweet not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | copy | past | Unconscious | sweet | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | craft | Nature's sweet | nom craft «act 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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