The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 8
A Spirit of strength and swiftness onward borne Through luminous realms, all resonant and free, Happier because unwinged, like endless morn With silver feet circling the spherèd sea: And still her lonely thought with song was blent; And bird-like still she warbled as she went.
Who acts: silver feet, lonely thought, spirit · What happens: bear, circle, be, warble, go, think · To what, where: swiftness, luminous realms, spherèd sea
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 (silver feet, lonely thought, spirit), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Spirit | det |
| 2 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 strength | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 strength | case |
| 4 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 swiftness | cc |
| 6 | swiftness | swiftness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strength | conj |
| 7 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 8 borne | advmod |
| 8 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 swiftness | acl |
| 9 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 11 realms | case |
| 10 | luminous | luminous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 realms | amod |
| 11 | realms | realm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 borne | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 resonant | punct |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 resonant | det |
| 14 | resonant | resonant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strength | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 free | cc |
| 16 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 resonant | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Happier | punct |
| 18 | Happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 strength | conj |
| 19 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 20 unwinged | mark |
| 20 | unwinged | unwinged | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Happier | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 morn | punct |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 24 morn | case |
| 23 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 morn | amod |
| 24 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strength | conj |
| 25 | With | with | ADP | _ | 27 feet | case |
| 26 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 feet | compound |
| 27 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 morn | nmod |
| 28 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 feet | acl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 sea | det |
| 30 | spherèd | spherèd | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 sea | amod |
| 31 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 circling | obj |
| 32 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 37 thought | punct |
| 33 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 thought | cc |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 37 thought | advmod |
| 35 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 thought | nmod:poss |
| 36 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 thought | amod |
| 37 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strength | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 song | case |
| 39 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 blent | obl |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 blent | cop |
| 41 | blent | blent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 thought | acl:relcl |
| 42 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 like | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 like | cc |
| 44 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 like | compound |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 bird | punct |
| 46 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 strength | parataxis |
| 47 | still | still | ADV | _ | 46 like | advmod |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 warbled | nsubj |
| 49 | warbled | warble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 like | acl:relcl |
| 50 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 went | mark |
| 51 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 went | nsubj |
| 52 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 warbled | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strength | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear | participle | swiftness not said here | luminous realms | onward property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | circle | gerund | silver feet not said here | the spherèd sea | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme sea=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | spirit's lonely thought not said here | with song; blent property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | warble | past | spirit | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | go | past | spirit | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | think | spirit | nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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