The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 9
For music then, like warfare, not from art Grew up laborious:--born of frank good-will, ’Twas Joy’s loud clarion in the generous heart; Through pains more perfect grew the harper’s skill; Yet still from purest soul, and noblest breast The minstrelsy perforce became the best.
Who acts: pains, noblest breast · What happens: grow up, bear, grow, become · To what, where: skill, purest soul
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 (pains, noblest breast), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 2 music | case |
| 2 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Grew | conj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 music | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 warfare | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 warfare | case |
| 6 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 music | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 art | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 art | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 art | case |
| 10 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 music | conj |
| 11 | Grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 Grew | compound:prt |
| 13 | laborious | laborious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Grew | xcomp |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 16 born | punct |
| 16 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Grew | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 will | case |
| 18 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 will | amod |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 will | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 good | punct |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 born | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 clarion | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | ADP | _ | 28 clarion | case |
| 24 | Twas | Twas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Joy | compound |
| 25 | Joy | Joy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 clarion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Joy | case |
| 27 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 clarion | amod |
| 28 | clarion | clarion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 born | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 heart | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 heart | det |
| 31 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 heart | amod |
| 32 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 clarion | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 grew | punct |
| 34 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 35 pains | case |
| 35 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 grew | nsubj |
| 36 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 perfect | amod |
| 37 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 pains | amod |
| 38 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Grew | conj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 harper | det |
| 40 | harper | harper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 skill | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 harper | case |
| 42 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grew | obj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 48 soul | punct |
| 44 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 48 soul | cc |
| 45 | still | still | ADV | _ | 48 soul | advmod |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 soul | case |
| 47 | purest | pure | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 48 soul | amod |
| 48 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grew | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 became | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 became | cc |
| 51 | noblest | noble | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 52 breast | amod |
| 52 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 became | nsubj |
| 53 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 perforce | det |
| 54 | minstrelsy | minstrelsy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 55 perforce | compound |
| 55 | perforce | perforce | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 became | nsubj |
| 56 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 grew | conj |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 best | det |
| 58 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 56 became | xcomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 Grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | music and warfare and art conj; laborious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bear | participle | Twas Joy's loud clarion in the generous heart conj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | grow | past | pains | the harper's skill | purest soul | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.product PP.material»: agent=Agent skill=Product from soul=Material | |||
| 4 | become | past | noblest breast | the minstrelsy perforce nsubj; good property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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