The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 22
Some ballad old it was, but never steeped Till then with such strange sweetness to his ear: Was it reproof or challenge, vague yet dear?
Who acts: ballad · What happens: not steep · To what, where: Till
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 (ballad), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 ballad | det |
| 2 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steeped | nsubj:outer |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ballad | amod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 ballad | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 steeped | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 steeped | cc |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 steeped | advmod |
| 9 | steeped | steep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Till | Till | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 steeped | obj |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 sweetness | advmod |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 sweetness | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sweetness | amod |
| 14 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 sweetness | amod |
| 15 | sweetness | sweetness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steeped | obl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 ear | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 ear | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sweetness | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 reproof | punct |
| 20 | Was | was | ADP | _ | 22 reproof | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reproof | nsubj |
| 22 | reproof | reproof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 steeped | parataxis |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 challenge | cc |
| 24 | challenge | challenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reproof | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 vague | punct |
| 26 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 reproof | parataxis |
| 27 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 28 dear | cc |
| 28 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 vague | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 steeped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not steep | past | some ballad | Till | with such strange sweetness to Till's ear; reproof ballad or challenge parataxis | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent till=Patient with sweetness=Instrument |
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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