The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 41
So, hand in hand, upon that causeway standing, Those youthful lovers measure after measure Poured forth, their bosoms more and more expanding At once with music’s zeal, and love’s pure pleasure; For Deirdré still her voice with Naisi’s twined, All-perfect harmony though undesigned.
Who acts: you, causeway, youthful lovers, bosoms, lovers, love · What happens: hand, stand, measure, pour, expand, twine · To what, where: hand, voice, perfect harmony
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 (you, causeway, youthful lovers, bosoms), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 hand | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hand | punct |
| 3 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hand | case |
| 5 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 causeway | punct |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 causeway | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 causeway | det |
| 9 | causeway | causeway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hand | obl |
| 10 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 causeway | acl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 measure | punct |
| 12 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 lovers | det |
| 13 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 lovers | amod |
| 14 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 measure | nsubj |
| 15 | measure | measure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 standing | conj |
| 16 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 measure | case |
| 17 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 measure | obl |
| 18 | Poured | pour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 measure | xcomp |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 18 Poured | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bosoms | punct |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 causeway | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 expanding | advmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 expanding | cc |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 expanding | advmod |
| 26 | expanding | expand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 bosoms | acl |
| 27 | At | at | ADP | _ | 28 once | case |
| 28 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 expanding | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 zeal | case |
| 30 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 zeal | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 music | case |
| 32 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 expanding | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 pleasure | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 pleasure | cc |
| 35 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 pleasure | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 love | case |
| 37 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 pleasure | amod |
| 38 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 causeway | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 twined | punct |
| 40 | For | for | ADP | _ | 41 Deirdré | case |
| 41 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 twined | obl |
| 42 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 voice | advmod |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 voice | nmod:poss |
| 44 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 twined | nsubj:pass |
| 45 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 48 twined | mark |
| 46 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 twined | nmod:poss |
| 47 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 46 Naisi | case |
| 48 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hand | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 harmony | punct |
| 50 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 53 harmony | det |
| 51 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 50 All | punct |
| 52 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 harmony | amod |
| 53 | harmony | harmony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 twined | obl |
| 54 | though | though | ADV | _ | 55 undesigned | advmod |
| 55 | undesigned | undesign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 53 harmony | acl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | imperative | you not said here | hand | upon that causeway and lovers's bosoms and love's pure pleasure | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | that causeway and lovers's bosoms and love's pure pleasure not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | measure | present | that youthful lovers | after measure | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pour | participle | that youthful lovers not said here | forth property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source | ||||
| 5 | expand | gerund | lovers's bosoms not said here | with music's zeal | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with zeal=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | twine | participle · passive | Deirdré's voice | for Deirdré; all perfect harmony obl; Naisi nmod:poss | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | undesign | participle | all perfect harmony not said here | though property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | bosom | lovers = lover | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | please | love | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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