The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 94
Love’s wild, yet vestal flame Caught them once more as on that first of May; And three glad wedded years became a day.
Who acts: vestal flame, years · What happens: catch, wed, become · To what, where: tides
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 (vestal flame, years), 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 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wild | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Love | case |
| 3 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Caught | punct |
| 5 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 Caught | cc |
| 6 | vestal | vestal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 flame | amod |
| 7 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Caught | nsubj |
| 8 | Caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wild | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Caught | obj |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 more | advmod |
| 11 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 Caught | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 first | case |
| 14 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 first | det |
| 15 | first | first | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 more | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 May | case |
| 17 | May | May | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 first | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wedded | punct |
| 19 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 wedded | cc |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 glad | nummod |
| 21 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wedded | parataxis |
| 22 | wedded | wed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wild | conj |
| 23 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 became | nsubj |
| 24 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 wedded | ccomp |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 day | det |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 became | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | vestal flame | tides = tide | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wed | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | become | past | years | day | 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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