The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 23
Meanwhile along the loftier cloister floors As though with fettered feet moved knight with knight, Or, idiot-like, stood peering by the doors, Divided purpose making null their might; Or stood in groups, and watched where, undismayed, That haughty pair at chess in silence played.
Who acts: fettered feet, idiot, Divided purpose, haughty pair · What happens: fetter, move, stand, peer, divide, make · To what, where: knight, Divided purpose, groups, silence
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fettered feet, idiot, Divided purpose, haughty pair), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 6 floors | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 floors | det |
| 4 | loftier | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 floors | amod |
| 5 | cloister | cloister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 floors | compound |
| 6 | floors | floor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meanwhile | obl |
| 7 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 moved | mark |
| 8 | though | though | ADV | _ | 12 moved | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 feet | case |
| 10 | fettered | fetter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 feet | amod |
| 11 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 moved | nsubj |
| 12 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 knight | case |
| 15 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 moved | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 17 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 stood | cc |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stood | punct |
| 19 | idiot | idiot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 stood | nsubj |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 21 | like | like | INTJ | _ | 19 idiot | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 like | punct |
| 23 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | conj |
| 24 | peering | peer | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 stood | xcomp |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 doors | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 doors | det |
| 27 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 peering | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 purpose | punct |
| 29 | Divided | divide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 purpose | amod |
| 30 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 peering | obl |
| 31 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 purpose | acl |
| 32 | null | null | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 making | xcomp |
| 33 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 might | nmod:poss |
| 34 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 null | conj |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 stood | punct |
| 36 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 stood | cc |
| 37 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 moved | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 groups | case |
| 39 | groups | group | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 stood | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 watched | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 watched | cc |
| 42 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 stood | conj |
| 43 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 45 undismayed | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 undismayed | punct |
| 45 | undismayed | undismayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 watched | xcomp |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 pair | punct |
| 47 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 pair | det |
| 48 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 pair | amod |
| 49 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 undismayed | appos |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 chess | case |
| 51 | chess | chess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pair | nmod |
| 52 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 silence | case |
| 53 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 played | obl |
| 54 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 pair | acl:relcl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetter | participle | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | move | past | fettered feet | knight | with knight; meanwhile, though property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme knight=Result | |||
| 3 | stand | past | idiot | vn admire-31.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | peer | gerund | idiot not said here | Divided purpose | by the doors | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by door=Theme | |||
| 5 | divide | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | make | gerund | Divided purpose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | null | infinitive | Divided purpose not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | stand | past | fettered feet not said here | groups | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in group=Location | ||||
| 9 | watch | past | fettered feet not said here | undismayed property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 10 | play | past | that haughty pair at chess not said here | silence | vn performance-26.7-1 «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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