The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 22
Whom Naisi hearing, made reply, ‘Ride on:’ And Deirdré raised to heaven her heaven-sweet face, And made this song; for, as in girlhood, all Her musings, dark or bright, grew musical.
Who acts: Ride · What happens: hearing, make, raise, grow, muse · To what, where: sweet face, heaven, song
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ride), 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 | Whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 hearing | nsubj |
| 2 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hearing | compound |
| 3 | hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | parataxis |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 reply | punct |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 reply | amod |
| 6 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hearing | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ride | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 Ride | punct |
| 9 | Ride | ride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | nsubj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 ’ | case |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Ride | nmod |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Deirdré | cc |
| 14 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ’ | conj |
| 15 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 heaven | case |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | obl |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sweet | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 heaven | punct |
| 21 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 face | amod |
| 22 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 24 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raised | conj |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 song | det |
| 27 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 girlhood | punct |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 girlhood | case |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 girlhood | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 girlhood | case |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 girlhood | case |
| 33 | girlhood | girlhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 raised | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 musings | punct |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 musings | det:predet |
| 36 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 musings | nmod:poss |
| 37 | musings | musing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 girlhood | conj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 dark | punct |
| 39 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 girlhood | parataxis |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 bright | cc |
| 41 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 dark | conj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 grew | punct |
| 43 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 raised | conj |
| 44 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 grew | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hearing | Whom nsubj; made reply appos | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | make | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||||
| 3 | raise | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré | Ride's sweet face | heaven | girlhood and Ride's musings parataxis | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent face=Theme to heaven=Destination | ||
| 4 | make | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré not said here | this song | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset song=Product | ||||
| 5 | grow | past | Ride on ’ and Deirdré not said here | musical property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | muse | Ride | nom musing «cognition intransitive»: 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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