The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 57
Thy great heart, Flinging from off it, like a nightmare dream, A sway ignobler, chose the better part, Throning the lofty spirit in lofty place: It brought thee bliss and bale, but nothing base!
Who acts: great heart, heart · What happens: fling, choose, throne, bring · To what, where: heart, better part, lofty spirit, lofty place, thee
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 (great heart, heart), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 heart | nmod:poss |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | amod |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chose | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Flinging | punct |
| 5 | Flinging | fling | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 heart | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 Flinging | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dream | punct |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 dream | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 dream | det |
| 12 | nightmare | nightmare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dream | compound |
| 13 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sway | punct |
| 15 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 sway | det |
| 16 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | conj |
| 17 | ignobler | ignoble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 sway | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heart | punct |
| 19 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 chose | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Throning | punct |
| 24 | Throning | throne | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 chose | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 spirit | det |
| 26 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 spirit | amod |
| 27 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Throning | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 place | amod |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Throning | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 brought | punct |
| 32 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 brought | nsubj |
| 33 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 chose | conj |
| 34 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 brought | obj |
| 35 | bliss | bliss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 bale | cc |
| 37 | bale | bale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bliss | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 base | punct |
| 39 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 base | cc |
| 40 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 41 base | compound |
| 41 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 brought | conj |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 chose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fling | gerund | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway not said here | heart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent from it=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | choose | past | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway | the better part | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=Theme | ||||
| 3 | throne | gerund | Thy great heart and a nightmare dream and a sway not said here | the lofty spirit | lofty place | tree rules | |||
| 4 | bring | past | heart | thee | bliss and bale obj; nothing base conj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination bliss=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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