The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 12
Once too she marked two mated eagles flying Far from their cliff, her little lake above, Sunward in strength, and clapped her hands loud crying, ‘On, wedded Spirits, on! for this is Love!
Who acts: Unconscious, two mated eagles · What happens: mark, mate, fly, clap, cry, wed · To what, where: two mated eagles, cliff, hands, Spirits
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 (Unconscious, two mated eagles), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 marked | advmod |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 marked | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 eagles | nummod |
| 6 | mated | mate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eagles | amod |
| 7 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 marked | obj |
| 8 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 eagles | acl |
| 9 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 flying | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 cliff | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 cliff | nmod:poss |
| 12 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lake | punct |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lake | nmod:poss |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lake | amod |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cliff | conj |
| 17 | above | above | ADV | _ | 16 lake | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sunward | punct |
| 19 | Sunward | Sunward | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 marked | obl |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 strength | case |
| 21 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Sunward | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 clapped | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clapped | cc |
| 24 | clapped | clap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 marked | conj |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hands | nmod:poss |
| 26 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 clapped | obj |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 24 clapped | advmod |
| 28 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 clapped | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wedded | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 wedded | punct |
| 31 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 33 wedded | mark |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 On | punct |
| 33 | wedded | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 clapped | conj |
| 34 | Spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wedded | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 on | punct |
| 36 | on | on | X | Foreign=Yes | 34 Spirits | conj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 Spirits | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 Love | case |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 41 Love | det |
| 40 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 Love | cop |
| 41 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wedded | obl |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Unconscious | two mated eagles | Sunward in strength obl; once property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme | |||
| 2 | mate | participle | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fly | gerund | two mated eagles not said here | eagles's cliff and Unconscious's little lake | far property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from cliff=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | clap | past | Unconscious not said here | Unconscious's hands | loud property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||
| 5 | cry speech: express | gerund | Unconscious not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wed | past | Unconscious not said here | Spirits | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | ||||
| 7 | is | present | for this Love | 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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