The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 92
It was that season when on fields late dreary Thickest at dawn the awakened daisy throngeth; When in the dim sweet gloaming, never weary, Latest her song the darkling thrush prolongeth; And pillow-spurning children fret for morn, Fresh flowers, new leaves, and ecstacies re-born.
Who acts: bitter, awakened daisy, darkling thrush, spurning children, daisy · What happens: be, awaken, throng, darkl, prolong, spurn · To what, where: season, dawn, Latest song, ecstacies re-born
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 (bitter, awakened daisy, darkling thrush, spurning children), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 10 Thickest | mark |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 fields | case |
| 7 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Thickest | obl |
| 8 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 dreary | amod |
| 9 | dreary | dreary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Thickest | nsubj |
| 10 | Thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 season | amod |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 dawn | case |
| 12 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Thickest | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 daisy | det |
| 14 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 daisy | amod |
| 15 | daisy | daisy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 throngeth | nsubj |
| 16 | throngeth | throng | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dawn | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gloaming | punct |
| 18 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 gloaming | advmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 gloaming | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gloaming | det |
| 21 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gloaming | amod |
| 22 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gloaming | amod |
| 23 | gloaming | gloaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 season | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 weary | punct |
| 25 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 weary | advmod |
| 26 | weary | weary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 gloaming | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 song | punct |
| 28 | Latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 30 song | amod |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 song | nmod:poss |
| 30 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gloaming | conj |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 thrush | det |
| 32 | darkling | darkl | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 thrush | amod |
| 33 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 prolongeth | nsubj |
| 34 | prolongeth | prolong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 song | acl:relcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 fret | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fret | cc |
| 37 | pillow | pillow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 spurning | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 pillow | punct |
| 39 | spurning | spurn | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 children | amod |
| 40 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fret | nsubj |
| 41 | fret | fret | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 season | parataxis |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 morn | case |
| 43 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fret | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 flowers | punct |
| 45 | Fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 flowers | amod |
| 46 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 morn | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 leaves | punct |
| 48 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 leaves | amod |
| 49 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 flowers | conj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 re-born | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 re-born | cc |
| 52 | ecstacies | ecstacy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 re-born | compound |
| 53 | re-born | re-born | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fret | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 season | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | bitter | season and the dim sweet gloaming and daisy's Latest song | the dim sweet gloaming and daisy's Latest song conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | awaken | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | throng | present | the awakened daisy | dawn not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | darkl | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | prolong | present | the darkling thrush | daisy's Latest song not said here | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent song=Theme | ||||
| 6 | spurn | gerund | pillow compound | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | fret | present | spurning children | ecstacies re-born | for morn | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 8 | sing | daisy | nom song «communication 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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