The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 86
Thus lived they prosperous mid that storm of war, In victory glad, not downcast in defeat: Three winter months when fortune pressed them sore Within a western isle they made retreat, The nearest of those rock-bound Hebrides Set mid the crystal splendour of the seas.
Who acts: anon, fortune, Hebrides, war · What happens: live, press, make, mi, storm · To what, where: anon, retreat, crystal splendour
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 (anon, fortune, Hebrides, war), 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 2 lived | advmod |
| 2 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 storm | amod |
| 5 | mid | mid | X | _ | 7 storm | compound |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 storm | det |
| 7 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lived | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 war | case |
| 9 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 storm | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 glad | punct |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 12 victory | case |
| 12 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glad | obl |
| 13 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 downcast | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 downcast | advmod |
| 16 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glad | appos |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 defeat | case |
| 18 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 downcast | nmod |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 months | punct |
| 20 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 months | nummod |
| 21 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 months | compound |
| 22 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 lived | obl |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 pressed | advmod |
| 24 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pressed | nsubj |
| 25 | pressed | press | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lived | parataxis |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pressed | obj |
| 27 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 pressed | xcomp |
| 28 | Within | within | ADP | _ | 31 isle | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 isle | det |
| 30 | western | western | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 isle | amod |
| 31 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pressed | obl |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 made | nsubj |
| 33 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 isle | acl:relcl |
| 34 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 made | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 nearest | punct |
| 36 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 nearest | det |
| 37 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 pressed | advcl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 bound | case |
| 39 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 42 bound | det |
| 40 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 bound | compound |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 rock | punct |
| 42 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 nearest | obl |
| 43 | Hebrides | Hebrides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 45 mid | nsubj |
| 44 | Set | Set | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 Hebrides | flat |
| 45 | mid | mi | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 nearest | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 splendour | det |
| 47 | crystal | crystal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 splendour | amod |
| 48 | splendour | splendour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 mid | obj |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 seas | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 seas | det |
| 51 | seas | sea | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 splendour | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | anon | month | that prosperous mid storm of war conj; thus property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | press | past | fortune | anon | within a western isle; sore property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | anon | retreat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset retreat=Product | ||||
| 4 | mi | past | Hebrides | the crystal splendour of the seas | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | storm | war | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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