The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 101
‘Loch Etive, O Loch Etive! near thy shore, Lulled by thy waters pure, and airs heart-healing, Latest we lived, who live there now no more; Earliest in thee we raised our little shieling:-- Good things the sons of Usnach gat from thee, And I, the ill-omened sister of the Three!’
Who acts: airs, Loch, we, I · What happens: lull, healing, live, raise, omen, sister · To what, where: Loch, Earliest
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 (airs, Loch, we, I), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Loch | punct |
| 2 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 3 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Loch | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Loch | punct |
| 5 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Loch | compound |
| 6 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Loch | conj |
| 7 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Loch | flat |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 Loch | punct |
| 9 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 shore | case |
| 10 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 shore | nmod:poss |
| 11 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Loch | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lulled | punct |
| 13 | Lulled | lull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Loch | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 waters | case |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 waters | nmod:poss |
| 16 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Lulled | obl |
| 17 | pure | pure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Lulled | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 healing | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 healing | cc |
| 20 | airs | air | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 healing | nsubj |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 healing | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 heart | punct |
| 23 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Loch | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Latest | punct |
| 25 | Latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 26 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 lived | nsubj |
| 27 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 live | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 live | nsubj |
| 30 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | conj |
| 31 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 live | advmod |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 live | advmod |
| 33 | no | no | ADV | _ | 34 more | advmod |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 30 live | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 raised | punct |
| 36 | Earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 raised | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 thee | case |
| 38 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 36 Earliest | obl |
| 39 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 raised | nsubj |
| 40 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 lived | conj |
| 41 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 shieling | nmod:poss |
| 42 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 shieling | amod |
| 43 | shieling | shieling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 raised | obj |
| 44 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 things | punct |
| 45 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 things | punct |
| 46 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 things | amod |
| 47 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 shieling | conj |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 sons | det |
| 49 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 things | appos |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 gat | case |
| 51 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 gat | compound |
| 52 | gat | gat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 sons | nmod |
| 53 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 thee | case |
| 54 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 52 gat | nmod |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 sister | punct |
| 56 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 63 sister | cc |
| 57 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 63 sister | nsubj |
| 58 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 63 sister | punct |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 sister | det |
| 60 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 62 omened | compound |
| 61 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 60 ill | punct |
| 62 | omened | omen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 63 sister | amod |
| 63 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 raised | obl |
| 64 | of | of | ADP | _ | 66 Three | case |
| 65 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 66 Three | det |
| 66 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 63 sister | nmod |
| 67 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 63 sister | punct |
| 68 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lull | participle | Loch and O Loch near thy shore and heart healing not said here | by thy waters; pure property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | healing | airs | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | live | past | Loch and O Loch near thy shore and heart healing | we nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | live | present | there | now | who nsubj | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 5 | raise | past | we | Earliest in thee | our little shieling and Good things obj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shieling=Theme | |||
| 6 | omen | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | sister | I | of the Three | tree rules |
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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