The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 45
But when, to many a questioner replying, They found that they had only met that noon, The lovers laughed a sweet-voiced laughter, crying, ‘We thought we had been wedded many a moon!
Who acts: questioner, many, lovers, We · What happens: reply, find, meet, laugh, voice, cry · To what, where: sweet voiced laughter, we · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (questioner, many, lovers, We), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 many | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 many | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 found | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 questioner | det |
| 7 | questioner | questioner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 many | appos |
| 8 | replying | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 questioner | acl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 many | punct |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 met | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 met | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 met | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 met | advmod |
| 16 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 found | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 noon | det |
| 18 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 met | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 laughed | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 lovers | det |
| 21 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 laughed | nsubj |
| 22 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 laughter | det |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 laughter | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 sweet | punct |
| 26 | voiced | voice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 laughter | amod |
| 27 | laughter | laughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laughed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 crying | punct |
| 29 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 laughed | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 thought | punct |
| 32 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 thought | nsubj |
| 33 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 laughed | conj |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 wedded | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wedded | aux |
| 36 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 37 wedded | aux:pass |
| 37 | wedded | wed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 thought | ccomp |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 moon | amod |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 moon | det |
| 40 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 wedded | obj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | gerund | a questioner not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | find | past | many | lovers = lover nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | meet | past · perfect | lovers = lover | noon | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | laugh | past | the lovers | a sweet voiced laughter | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laughter=Theme | ||||
| 5 | voice speech: other | participle | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | gerund | the lovers not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | think speech: other | past | We | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | wed | past · perfect · passive | we | a many moon obj | 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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