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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 46

To whom replied the old man tremulously, ‘Would God that ne’er had come that night of old When shriek on shriek confused the revelry, And I that new-born Infant’s fate foretold; For ne’er in ninety years deceived was I Or by man’s art, or wiles of Destiny!

Who acts: God, shriek, I, new born Infant · What happens: reply, come, confuse, bear, foretell, deceive · To what, where: old man, revelry, wiles, I

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 (God, shriek, I, new born Infant), 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

casensubjdetamodobjadvmodpunctpunctauxoblnsubjnsubjauxacl:relcldetobl:unmarkedcasenmodadvmodnsubjcasenmodadvcldetobjpunctccnsubjmarkamodpunctamodnmod:posscasensubjconjpunctcaseoblcasenummodnmodconjcopconjcccasenmod:posscaseconjpunctccoblcasenmodpunctrootToADPwhomPRONrepliedVERBtheDEToldADJmanNOUNtremulouslyADV,PUNCT‘PUNCTWouldAUXGodPROPNthatPRONne’erNOUNhadAUXcomeVERBthatDETnightNOUNofADPoldADJWhenADVshriekNOUNonADPshriekNOUNconfusedVERBtheDETrevelryNOUN,PUNCTAndCCONJIPRONthatSCONJnewADJ-PUNCTbornVERBInfantNOUN’sPARTfateNOUNforetoldVERB;PUNCTForADPne’erNOUNinADPninetyNUMyearsNOUNdeceivedVERBwasAUXIPRONOrCCONJbyADPmanNOUN’sPARTartNOUN,PUNCTorCCONJwilesNOUNofADPDestinyPROPN!PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoADP_3 repliedcase
2whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel3 repliednsubj
3repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 mandet
5oldoldADJDegree=Pos6 manamod
6manmanNOUNNumber=Sing3 repliedobj
7tremulouslytremulouslyADV_3 repliedadvmod
8,,PUNCT_11 Godpunct
9‘'PUNCT_11 Godpunct
10WouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin11 Godaux
11GodGodPROPNNumber=Sing3 repliedobl
12thatthatPRONPronType=Rel15 comensubj
13ne’erne'erNOUNNumber=Sing15 comensubj
14hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 comeaux
15comecomeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part11 Godacl:relcl
16thatthatDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem17 nightdet
17nightnightNOUNNumber=Sing15 comeobl:unmarked
18ofofADP_19 oldcase
19oldoldADJDegree=Pos17 nightnmod
20WhenwhenADVPronType=Int24 confusedadvmod
21shriekshriekNOUNNumber=Sing24 confusednsubj
22ononADP_23 shriekcase
23shriekshriekNOUNNumber=Sing21 shrieknmod
24confusedconfuseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin15 comeadvcl
25thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art26 revelrydet
26revelryrevelryNOUNNumber=Sing24 confusedobj
27,,PUNCT_37 foretoldpunct
28AndandCCONJ_37 foretoldcc
29IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs37 foretoldnsubj
30thatthatSCONJ_37 foretoldmark
31newnewADJDegree=Pos34 Infantamod
32--PUNCT_31 newpunct
33bornbearVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass34 Infantamod
34InfantinfantNOUNNumber=Sing36 fatenmod:poss
35’s'sPART_34 Infantcase
36fatefateNOUNNumber=Sing37 foretoldnsubj
37foretoldforetellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass3 repliedconj
38;;PUNCT_44 deceivedpunct
39ForforADP_40 ne’ercase
40ne’erne'erNOUNNumber=Sing44 deceivedobl
41ininADP_43 yearscase
42ninetyninetyNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card43 yearsnummod
43yearsyearNOUNNumber=Plur40 ne’ernmod
44deceiveddeceiveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 repliedconj
45wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin46 Icop
46IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs44 deceivedconj
47OrorCCONJ_51 artcc
48bybyADP_51 artcase
49manmanNOUNNumber=Sing51 artnmod:poss
50’s'sPART_49 mancase
51artartNOUNNumber=Sing46 Iconj
52,,PUNCT_54 wilespunct
53ororCCONJ_54 wilescc
54wileswileNOUNNumber=Plur44 deceivedobl
55ofofADP_56 Destinycase
56DestinyDestinyPROPNNumber=Sing54 wilesnmod
57!!PUNCT_3 repliedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1reply speech: assertpastthe old manGod obl; whom nsubj; tremulously propertyvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic
2comepast · perfectGodnightne’er nsubjvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3confusepastshriek on shriekthe revelryvn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revelry=Patient
4bearparticiplevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
5foretellparticipleInew born Infant's fate nsubjvn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6deceivepastwiles of Destinyfor ne’er in ninety yearsvn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7is apastIman's art conjtree rules
8fatenew born Infantnom fate «event 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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