The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 39
Unseen by him she wiped away her tear; While from the black boughs fell a poison-dew; And Fate her net more closely round them drew.
Who acts: Three, black boughs, Fate · What happens: wipe away, fall, draw · To what, where: tear, poison dew
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 (Three, black boughs, Fate), 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 | Unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wiped | advcl |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Unseen | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wiped | nsubj |
| 5 | wiped | wipe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 wiped | advmod |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tear | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tear | tear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wiped | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fell | punct |
| 10 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 15 fell | mark |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 boughs | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 boughs | det |
| 13 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 boughs | amod |
| 14 | boughs | bough | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 fell | nsubj |
| 15 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiped | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dew | det |
| 17 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dew | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 poison | punct |
| 19 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fell | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 drew | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Fate | cc |
| 22 | Fate | Fate | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 drew | nsubj |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 net | nmod:poss |
| 24 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Fate | appos |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 closely | advmod |
| 26 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 29 drew | advmod |
| 27 | round | round | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 closely | obl |
| 29 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wiped | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wiped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wipe away | past | Three | Three's tear | away property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tear=Theme | |||
| 2 | fall | past | the black boughs | a poison dew | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dew=Result | ||||
| 3 | draw | past | Fate | closely property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: 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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