The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 48
In stately throng The knights received them: yet on brows of each Devoid of guile, a dubious sadness clung: Not less the seats were set; the tables spread: Nor ceased that revel till the day was sped.
Who acts: knights, tables, Nor · What happens: throng, receive, cling, set, spread, cease · To what, where: brows, mead, dubious sadness, seats, revel, day
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 (knights, tables, Nor), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 3 throng | mark |
| 2 | stately | stately | ADV | _ | 3 throng | advmod |
| 3 | throng | throng | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 knights | det |
| 5 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 received | nsubj |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 throng | ccomp |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 received | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 brows | punct |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 11 brows | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 brows | case |
| 11 | brows | brow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 throng | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 each | case |
| 13 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 Devoid | det |
| 14 | Devoid | Devoid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 brows | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 guile | case |
| 16 | guile | guile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Devoid | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sadness | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 sadness | det |
| 19 | dubious | dubious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sadness | amod |
| 20 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 brows | appos |
| 21 | clung | cling | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 sadness | acl |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 set | punct |
| 23 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 less | advmod |
| 24 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 28 set | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 seats | det |
| 26 | seats | seat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 set | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 set | aux:pass |
| 28 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 throng | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 spread | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 tables | det |
| 31 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 spread | nsubj |
| 32 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 throng | parataxis |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 35 ceased | punct |
| 34 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 ceased | nsubj |
| 35 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 spread | conj |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 revel | det |
| 37 | revel | revel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 ceased | obj |
| 38 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 42 sped | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 day | det |
| 40 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 sped | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 sped | aux:pass |
| 42 | sped | speed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 ceased | advcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 throng | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throng | imperative | brows each Devoid of guile | stately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the knights | mead | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cling | participle | a dubious sadness not said here | vn cling-22.5 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | set | past · passive | the seats | less property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | spread | past | the tables | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | cease | past | Nor | that revel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector revel=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | speed | past · passive | the day | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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