The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 90
It was that season when the spirit of joy Runs million-footed forth through earth and air; When the hale shepherd grows once more the boy; The girl-like youth is prompt to do and dare; When womanhood looks softer than its wont; The star shines whiter on the infant’s front.
Who acts: valour, hale shepherd, like youth, womanhood, star · What happens: be, grow, do, dare, look, shine · To what, where: season, boy, front
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 (valour, hale shepherd, like youth, womanhood), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 season | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 season | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 season | mark |
| 4 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 footed | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirit | det |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 footed | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Runs | case |
| 9 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Runs | compound |
| 10 | Runs | run | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spirit | nmod |
| 11 | million | million | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 footed | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 million | punct |
| 13 | footed | footed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 season | amod |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 footed | advmod |
| 15 | through | through | ADP | _ | 16 earth | case |
| 16 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 footed | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 air | cc |
| 18 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 earth | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 grows | punct |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 grows | advmod |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shepherd | det |
| 22 | hale | hale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 shepherd | amod |
| 23 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grows | nsubj |
| 24 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 season | parataxis |
| 25 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 26 more | advmod |
| 26 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 grows | advmod |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 boy | det |
| 28 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 grows | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 prompt | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 youth | det |
| 31 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 like | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 girl | punct |
| 33 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 youth | amod |
| 34 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prompt | nsubj |
| 35 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 prompt | cop |
| 36 | prompt | prompt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 grows | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 do | mark |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 prompt | xcomp |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 dare | cc |
| 40 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 do | conj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 looks | punct |
| 42 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 44 looks | mark |
| 43 | womanhood | womanhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 looks | nsubj |
| 44 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 prompt | parataxis |
| 45 | softer | soft | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 44 looks | xcomp |
| 46 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 wont | case |
| 47 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 wont | nmod:poss |
| 48 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 softer | obl |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 52 shines | punct |
| 50 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 star | det |
| 51 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 shines | nsubj |
| 52 | shines | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 season | parataxis |
| 53 | whiter | white | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 52 shines | xcomp |
| 54 | on | on | ADP | _ | 58 front | case |
| 55 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 infant | det |
| 56 | infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 58 front | nmod:poss |
| 57 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 56 infant | case |
| 58 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 shines | obl |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 season | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | valour | season | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | present | the hale shepherd | the boy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location boy=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the like youth | prompt property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the like youth not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dare | infinitive | the like youth not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | look | present | womanhood | soft property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | shine | present | the star | the infant's front | white property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on front=Location |
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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