The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 54
Deirdré and he were playing chess together:[15] Their bent heads well nigh met above the board; While sunny gleams of that unclouded weather Glancing through boughs the chequered ivory scored.
Who acts: Naisi, Deirdré, sunny gleams · What happens: play, meet, uncloud, glance, chequer, score · To what, where: chess, sunny gleams, board, chequered ivory
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 (Naisi, Deirdré, sunny gleams), 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 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 met | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 playing | cc |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 playing | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 playing | aux |
| 5 | playing | play | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Deirdré | conj |
| 6 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 playing | obj |
| 7 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 playing | advmod |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 15 | punct |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 15 | punct |
| 10 | 15 | 15 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Deirdré | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 15 | punct |
| 12 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heads | nmod:poss |
| 13 | bent | bent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 heads | amod |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | nsubj |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 met | advmod |
| 16 | nigh | nigh | ADV | _ | 17 met | advmod |
| 17 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 18 | above | above | ADP | _ | 20 board | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 board | det |
| 20 | board | board | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 met | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 gleams | punct |
| 22 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 24 gleams | mark |
| 23 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 gleams | amod |
| 24 | gleams | gleam | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 met | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 weather | case |
| 26 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 weather | det |
| 27 | unclouded | uncloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 weather | amod |
| 28 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 gleams | nmod |
| 29 | Glancing | glance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 gleams | acl |
| 30 | through | through | ADP | _ | 31 boughs | case |
| 31 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 Glancing | obl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 ivory | det |
| 33 | chequered | chequer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 ivory | amod |
| 34 | ivory | ivory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 boughs | appos |
| 35 | scored | score | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 ivory | acl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past · progressive | Naisi | chess | together property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chess=Theme | |||
| 2 | meet | participle | Deirdré | sunny gleams of that unclouded weather | the board | tents's bent heads nsubj; nigh, well property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 3 | uncloud | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | glance | gerund | sunny gleams of that unclouded weather not said here | through boughs | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through bough=Theme | ||||
| 5 | chequer | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | score | participle | the chequered ivory not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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