The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 59
Yet near his court they dwelt; and once it chanced A palace churl while o’er the forest boughs New leaved, the earliest beam of morning glanced, Made way, with missives sent, to Naisi’s house, And on by dusky doors, though timorous, crept, And found at last that room where Naisi slept.
Who acts: court, ne’er, room · What happens: dwell, chance, glance, make, send, creep · To what, where: court, palace churl, forest boughs, way, missives, house
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 (court, ne’er, room), 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 | _ | 6 dwelt | cc |
| 2 | near | near | ADP | _ | 4 court | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 court | nmod:poss |
| 4 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dwelt | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 dwelt | nsubj |
| 6 | dwelt | dwell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 chanced | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 chanced | cc |
| 9 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 11 chanced | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 chanced | nsubj |
| 11 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dwelt | conj |
| 12 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 churl | det |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 churl | compound |
| 14 | churl | churl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chanced | obj |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 o’er | mark |
| 16 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 chanced | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boughs | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boughs | compound |
| 19 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 o’er | conj |
| 20 | New | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 leaved | amod |
| 21 | leaved | leaved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boughs | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beam | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 beam | det |
| 24 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 beam | amod |
| 25 | beam | beam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 boughs | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 morning | case |
| 27 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beam | nmod |
| 28 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 boughs | acl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Made | punct |
| 30 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 glanced | conj |
| 31 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 Made | obl:unmarked |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 missives | punct |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 missives | case |
| 34 | missives | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Made | obl |
| 35 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 missives | acl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 house | punct |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 38 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 house | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Naisi | case |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sent | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 crept | punct |
| 42 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 crept | cc |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 46 doors | case |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 doors | case |
| 45 | dusky | dusky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 doors | amod |
| 46 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 crept | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 timorous | punct |
| 48 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 49 timorous | mark |
| 49 | timorous | timorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 doors | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 doors | punct |
| 51 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dwelt | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 found | punct |
| 53 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 found | cc |
| 54 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 crept | advcl |
| 55 | at | at | ADP | _ | 56 last | case |
| 56 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 found | xcomp |
| 57 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 61 slept | mark |
| 58 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 slept | nsubj |
| 59 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 61 slept | advmod |
| 60 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 61 slept | nsubj |
| 61 | slept | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 56 last | advcl |
| 62 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dwelt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dwell | past | court | king's court | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near court=Location | ||||
| 2 | chance | past | ne’er = ne'er | a palace churl | o’er and the forest boughs and the earliest beam of morning ccomp | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent churl=Pivot | |||
| 3 | glance | participle | the forest boughs and the earliest beam of morning not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | make | participle | way | with missives | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | send | participle | missives not said here | Naisi's house | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to house=Destination | ||||
| 6 | creep | past | court not said here | dusky doors | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on door=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | find | past | court not said here | last property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | sleep | past | room | Naisi nsubj | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | beam | morning | nom beam «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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