The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 93
‘O beauteous Land, oft on thy heathery bed, Wearied with chase, upon my sleepless heart My Naisi laid at noon his sleeping head; And therefore thine I am; and dear thou art.
Who acts: Naisi · What happens: weary, lay, be · To what, where: sleepless heart, thine
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), 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 | _ | 6 oft | punct |
| 2 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 4 Land | case |
| 3 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Land | amod |
| 4 | Land | Land | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 oft | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 oft | punct |
| 6 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heathery | heathery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bed | amod |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oft | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Wearied | punct |
| 12 | Wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 oft | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 chase | case |
| 14 | chase | chase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Wearied | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 heart | punct |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heart | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sleepless | sleepless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 heart | amod |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Wearied | obl |
| 20 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 Naisi | nmod:poss |
| 21 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | nsubj |
| 22 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 heart | acl:relcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 noon | case |
| 24 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 laid | obl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 head | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 head | compound |
| 27 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 noon | appos |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 thine | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 thine | cc |
| 30 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 31 thine | advmod |
| 31 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 oft | conj |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 am | nsubj |
| 33 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 thine | cop |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 dear | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 dear | cc |
| 36 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oft | parataxis |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 38 art | nsubj |
| 38 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 dear | parataxis |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 oft | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weary | participle | with chase; upon my sleepless heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lay | past | My Naisi | my sleepless heart not said here | noon | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Result | |||
| 3 | is a | present | thine | therefore property | 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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