The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 85
And when the stony storm blackened the heaven, And gate rolled in, and casement burst and brake, And all that House was as a ship rock-riven, In midnight storm, they sat, and never spake; For two contrarient thoughts their minds had cleft-- Astonied men of manhood’s might bereft.
Who acts: stony storm, House, riven, minds · What happens: blacken, roll in, be, sit, not speak, have · To what, where: heaven, gate, cleft · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (stony storm, House, riven, minds), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 blackened | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 blackened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storm | det |
| 4 | stony | stony | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 storm | amod |
| 5 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blackened | nsubj |
| 6 | blackened | blacken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heaven | det |
| 8 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blackened | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gate | punct |
| 10 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gate | cc |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blackened | obl |
| 12 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 gate | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 rolled | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 burst | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 burst | cc |
| 16 | casement | casement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | compound |
| 17 | burst | burst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blackened | parataxis |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 brake | cc |
| 19 | brake | brake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 burst | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 riven | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 riven | cc |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 that | det:predet |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 House | det |
| 24 | House | House | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 riven | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 riven | cop |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 31 riven | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 riven | det |
| 28 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rock | compound |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 riven | compound |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 rock | punct |
| 31 | riven | riven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 blackened | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 storm | punct |
| 33 | In | in | ADP | _ | 35 storm | case |
| 34 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 storm | compound |
| 35 | storm | storm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 riven | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sat | punct |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sat | nsubj |
| 38 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blackened | parataxis |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 spake | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 spake | cc |
| 41 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 42 spake | advmod |
| 42 | spake | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 sat | conj |
| 43 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 50 had | punct |
| 44 | For | for | ADP | _ | 47 thoughts | case |
| 45 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 47 thoughts | nummod |
| 46 | contrarient | contrarient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 thoughts | amod |
| 47 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 had | obl |
| 48 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 minds | nmod:poss |
| 49 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 had | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blackened | conj |
| 51 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 had | obj |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 54 men | punct |
| 53 | Astonied | astony | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 54 men | amod |
| 54 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 59 bereft | nsubj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 manhood | case |
| 56 | manhood | manhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 men | nmod |
| 57 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 56 manhood | case |
| 58 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 59 bereft | aux |
| 59 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 cleft | acl:relcl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blackened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blacken | past | the stony storm | the heaven | gate obl; casement burst and brake parataxis | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent heaven=Patient | |||
| 2 | roll in | participle | gate not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | that House | as a rock riven and midnight storm; midnight storm conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sit | past | riven | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not speak speech: other | infinitive | riven not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | past | riven's minds | cleft | for two contrarient thoughts | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cleft=Patient | |||
| 7 | astony | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | mind | riven | nom mind «cognition 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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