The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 10
The heroic song hath sorrows, but not sighs; The heroic legend tender is, yet hard; With grief alike, and joy, can sympathise, Yet keeps the heroic heart from weakness barred.
Who acts: heroic song, heroic legend tender, joy · What happens: have, be, sympathise, keep, bar · To what, where: sorrows, heroic heart, weakness
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heroic song, heroic legend tender, joy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 song | det |
| 2 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 song | amod |
| 3 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hath | nsubj |
| 4 | hath | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hath | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 sighs | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 sighs | cc |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 sighs | advmod |
| 9 | sighs | sigh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sorrows | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 hard | punct |
| 11 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tender | det |
| 12 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tender | amod |
| 13 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tender | compound |
| 14 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hard | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 hard | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 hard | punct |
| 17 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 18 hard | cc |
| 18 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hath | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 grief | punct |
| 20 | With | with | ADP | _ | 21 grief | case |
| 21 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hard | obl |
| 22 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 grief | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 sympathise | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sympathise | cc |
| 25 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sympathise | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 joy | punct |
| 27 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 sympathise | aux |
| 28 | sympathise | sympathise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 hath | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 keeps | punct |
| 30 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 keeps | cc |
| 31 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 hath | conj |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heart | det |
| 33 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 heart | amod |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keeps | obj |
| 35 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 weakness | case |
| 36 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 keeps | obl |
| 37 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 weakness | acl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hath | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the heroic song | sorrows but sighs | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the heroic legend tender | with grief; hard property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sympathise | can | joy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | the heroic song not said here | the heroic heart | weakness | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer heart=Beneficiary from weakness=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | bar | participle | weakness not said here | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer |
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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