The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 62
Already there The greedy, youngling sunrise made his feast, Though still in cloud half muffled was the east.
Who acts: greedy youngling sunrise, cloud half · What happens: make, muffle, be · To what, where: feast, east
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 (greedy youngling sunrise, cloud half), 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 | Already | already | ADV | _ | 2 there | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 made | advmod |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sunrise | det |
| 4 | greedy | greedy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sunrise | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 greedy | punct |
| 6 | youngling | youngling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sunrise | compound |
| 7 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feast | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 muffled | punct |
| 12 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 17 muffled | mark |
| 13 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 half | advmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 half | case |
| 15 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 half | compound |
| 16 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 17 muffled | nsubj |
| 17 | muffled | muffle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | conj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 east | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 east | det |
| 20 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 muffled | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the greedy youngling sunrise | Breeze's feast | there | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset feast=Product | |||
| 2 | muffle | past | cloud half | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the east | 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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