The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 18
‘There lies,’ he mused, ‘that wondrous-countenanced child, Like some poor bird a captive from its birth, In that lone island year by year exiled: How little she suspects her grace and worth!
Who acts: lies, that, bird · What happens: muse, countenance, child, exile, suspect · To what, where: captive, birth, lone island, grace
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 (lies, that, bird), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 lies | expl |
| 3 | lies | lie | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mused | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 lies | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mused | nsubj |
| 7 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 child | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 child | nsubj |
| 11 | wondrous | wondrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 child | amod |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondrous | punct |
| 13 | countenanced | countenance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 child | amod |
| 14 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mused | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bird | punct |
| 16 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 19 bird | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 bird | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bird | amod |
| 19 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mused | obl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 captive | det |
| 21 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mused | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 birth | case |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 birth | nmod:poss |
| 24 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 captive | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 exiled | punct |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 29 island | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 island | det |
| 28 | lone | lone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 island | amod |
| 29 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exiled | obl |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 exiled | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 year | case |
| 32 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 year | nmod |
| 33 | exiled | exile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mused | conj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 suspects | punct |
| 35 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 little | advmod |
| 36 | little | little | ADV | Degree=Pos | 38 suspects | advmod |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 suspects | nsubj |
| 38 | suspects | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 exiled | conj |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 grace | nmod:poss |
| 40 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 suspects | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 worth | cc |
| 42 | worth | worth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 grace | conj |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 mused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | muse | past | lies There | a captive | captive's birth | like some poor bird; Silent nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | countenance | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | child | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | exile | past | lies There not said here | that lone island | year | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | suspect | present | bird | bird's grace and worth | little property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent grace=Attribute |
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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