The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 98
‘Glenorchy, O Glenorchy! sweet in thee To hear the cuckoo’s note, that glad new-comer; And sweet o’er Masan’s sands to watch the sea Sleep on unwakened half the long, blue summer!
Who acts: thee, that, sweet o’er, cuckoo · What happens: hear, comer, sand, watch, unwaken, note · To what, where: note, sea Sleep
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 (thee, that, sweet o’er, cuckoo), 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 Glenorchy | punct |
| 2 | Glenorchy | Glenorchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 sweet | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Glenorchy | punct |
| 4 | O | O | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Glenorchy | compound |
| 5 | Glenorchy | Glenorchy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Glenorchy | appos |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Glenorchy | punct |
| 7 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 10 | To | to | PART | _ | 11 hear | mark |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sweet | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cuckoo | det |
| 13 | cuckoo | cuckoo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 note | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 cuckoo | case |
| 15 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 comer | punct |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 comer | nsubj |
| 18 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 comer | amod |
| 19 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 comer | amod |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 new | punct |
| 21 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 note | appos |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 sands | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sands | cc |
| 24 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 o’er | amod |
| 25 | o’er | o'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sands | nsubj |
| 26 | Masan | Masan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 sands | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Masan | case |
| 28 | sands | sand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 sweet | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 watch | mark |
| 30 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sands | acl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sleep | det |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Sleep | compound |
| 33 | Sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 watch | obj |
| 34 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 35 unwakened | mark |
| 35 | unwakened | unwaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 watch | advcl |
| 36 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 41 summer | det:predet |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 summer | det |
| 38 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 blue | amod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 long | punct |
| 40 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 summer | amod |
| 41 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 unwakened | obl:unmarked |
| 42 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sweet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | to-infinitive | thee | the cuckoo's note | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer note=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | comer | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sand | sweet o’er | Masan nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | watch | to-infinitive | the sea Sleep | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sleep=Theme | |||||
| 5 | unwaken | participle | summer | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | note | the cuckoo | nom note «communication transitive»: poss=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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