The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 91
It was that season when the maiden’s heart, Though guarded, faster beats against its bound; When Love’s long hidden fount, by happier art Divined, is nearer to the surface found: When to the faded cheek returns its bloom; And tears less bitter stain the flower-decked tomb.
Who acts: star, season, Love, long hidden fount, bitter · What happens: be, guard, hide, divine, find, fade · To what, where: season, faster beats, long hidden fount, happier art, bloom, faded cheek
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 (star, season, Love, long hidden fount), 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 | 37 found | parataxis |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heart | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heart | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 maiden | case |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 season | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 guarded | punct |
| 11 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 12 guarded | mark |
| 12 | guarded | guard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 season | acl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 beats | punct |
| 14 | faster | fast | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 beats | amod |
| 15 | beats | beat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 guarded | obl |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 bound | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bound | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bound | bound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 beats | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 fount | punct |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 fount | advmod |
| 21 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 fount | nsubj |
| 22 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 fount | cop |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 fount | amod |
| 24 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 fount | amod |
| 25 | fount | fount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 found | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 art | punct |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 art | case |
| 28 | happier | happy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 art | amod |
| 29 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fount | parataxis |
| 30 | Divined | divine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 art | acl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 nearer | punct |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 nearer | cop |
| 33 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 fount | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 surface | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 surface | det |
| 36 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 nearer | obl |
| 37 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 returns | punct |
| 39 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 44 returns | mark |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 cheek | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 cheek | det |
| 42 | faded | fade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 43 cheek | amod |
| 43 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 returns | obl |
| 44 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | parataxis |
| 45 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 bloom | nmod:poss |
| 46 | bloom | bloom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 returns | obj |
| 47 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 tears | punct |
| 48 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 tears | cc |
| 49 | tears | tear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 found | conj |
| 50 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 bitter | advmod |
| 51 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 stain | nsubj |
| 52 | stain | stain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 49 tears | ccomp |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 57 tomb | det |
| 54 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 decked | compound |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 flower | punct |
| 56 | decked | deck | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 57 tomb | amod |
| 57 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 stain | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | star | season | the maiden's heart nmod | tree rules | |||
| 2 | guard | participle | season not said here | faster beats against star's bound | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | hide | participle | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | present | Love | long hidden fount | happier art parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 5 | divine | participle | happier art not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | Love not said here | to the surface; near property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | find | past | long hidden fount | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | fade | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 9 | return | present | star's bloom | the faded cheek | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bloom=Theme to cheek=Destination | ||||
| 10 | tear | present | long hidden fount not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 11 | stain | present | bitter | the decked tomb | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent tomb=Destination | ||||
| 12 | deck | participle | flower compound | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 13 | bloom | star | nom bloom «process intransitive»: 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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