The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 49
Yet, when within those lovers’ eyes they saw Wild mirth alone, and blank astonishment, They deemed the thing divine; and, though with awe, Their spirits on the high adventure bent, And council took, and with one mind decreed That self-same night o’er Uladh’s bound to speed.
Who acts: lovers, council, That · What happens: see, deem, bend, take, decree, o'er · To what, where: Wild mirth, thing divine, high adventure, bound
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 (lovers, council, That), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 10 saw | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yet | punct |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 4 | within | within | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 5 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 lovers | det |
| 6 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 6 lovers | case |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saw | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 mirth | amod |
| 12 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 astonishment | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 astonishment | cc |
| 16 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 astonishment | amod |
| 17 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deemed | punct |
| 19 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 deemed | nsubj |
| 20 | deemed | deem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 divine | det |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 divine | compound |
| 23 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deemed | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 awe | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 awe | cc |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 awe | punct |
| 27 | though | though | ADP | _ | 29 awe | case |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 awe | case |
| 29 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 spirits | punct |
| 31 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 32 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 awe | conj |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 adventure | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 adventure | det |
| 35 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 adventure | amod |
| 36 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 spirits | nmod |
| 37 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 adventure | acl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 took | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 took | cc |
| 40 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 took | nsubj |
| 41 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 awe | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 decreed | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 decreed | cc |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 46 mind | case |
| 45 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 46 mind | nummod |
| 46 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 decreed | obl |
| 47 | decreed | decree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 took | conj |
| 48 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 53 o’er | nsubj |
| 49 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 o’er | compound |
| 50 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 49 self | punct |
| 51 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 o’er | amod |
| 52 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 o’er | compound |
| 53 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 decreed | ccomp |
| 54 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 bound | nmod:poss |
| 55 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 54 Uladh | case |
| 56 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 o’er | nmod |
| 57 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 speed | mark |
| 58 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 bound | acl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | lovers = lover | Wild mirth | within that lovers's eyes; blank astonishment obl; awe and lovers's spirits on the high adventure conj; alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mirth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | deem | past | lovers = lover | the thing divine | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent divine=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | bend | participle | the high adventure not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | past | council | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | decree | past | council not said here | with one mind | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | o'er | That | Uladh's bound | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | speed | to-infinitive | That not said here | Uladh's bound not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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