The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 43
And, o’er her heaven-like beauty as he hung, His war-songs tender grew, and sweet of tone: And still they sang, till now through woods loud ringing The men of Erin, east and west, came winging,
Who acts: beauty, war songs, like beauty, lovers, woods · What happens: hang, tender, grow, sing, ring, come · To what, where: like beauty, men
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 (beauty, war songs, like beauty, lovers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 grew | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 beauty | punct |
| 3 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 heaven | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 grew | nsubj |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 hung | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 hung | nsubj |
| 11 | hung | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beauty | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tender | punct |
| 13 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 songs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 songs | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 war | punct |
| 16 | songs | song | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tender | nsubj |
| 17 | tender | tender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 hung | conj |
| 18 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sweet | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sweet | cc |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 grew | parataxis |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tone | case |
| 23 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sweet | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 sang | punct |
| 25 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sang | cc |
| 26 | still | still | ADV | _ | 28 sang | advmod |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sang | nsubj |
| 28 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grew | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 woods | punct |
| 30 | till | till | ADP | _ | 33 woods | case |
| 31 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 woods | advmod |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 33 woods | case |
| 33 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 sang | parataxis |
| 34 | loud | loud | ADV | _ | 33 woods | advmod |
| 35 | ringing | ring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 woods | acl |
| 36 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 men | det |
| 37 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 ringing | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Erin | case |
| 39 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 men | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 east | punct |
| 41 | east | east | ADV | _ | 35 ringing | advmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 west | cc |
| 43 | west | west | ADV | _ | 41 east | conj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 came | punct |
| 45 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 grew | conj |
| 46 | winging | wing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 45 came | xcomp |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hang | past | beauty | voice's like beauty not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tender | present | beauty's war songs | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | voice's like beauty | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | sing speech: express | past | lovers = lover | still | woods parataxis | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | ring | gerund | woods not said here | the men of Erin | east property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 6 | come | past | voice's like beauty not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | wing | gerund | voice's like beauty not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | sing | beauty | nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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