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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 replied | case |
| 2 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obj |
| 7 | tremulously | tremulously | ADV | _ | 3 replied | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 God | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 God | punct |
| 10 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 God | aux |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 replied | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 come | nsubj |
| 13 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | aux |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 God | acl:relcl |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 night | det |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl:unmarked |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 old | case |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 night | nmod |
| 20 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 confused | advmod |
| 21 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 confused | nsubj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shriek | case |
| 23 | shriek | shriek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 shriek | nmod |
| 24 | confused | confuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 come | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 revelry | det |
| 26 | revelry | revelry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 confused | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 foretold | punct |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 foretold | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 foretold | nsubj |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 foretold | mark |
| 31 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Infant | amod |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 new | punct |
| 33 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 Infant | amod |
| 34 | Infant | infant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 fate | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Infant | case |
| 36 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 foretold | nsubj |
| 37 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 replied | conj |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 deceived | punct |
| 39 | For | for | ADP | _ | 40 ne’er | case |
| 40 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deceived | obl |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 years | case |
| 42 | ninety | ninety | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 years | nummod |
| 43 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 ne’er | nmod |
| 44 | deceived | deceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 replied | conj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 I | cop |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 deceived | conj |
| 47 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 art | cc |
| 48 | by | by | ADP | _ | 51 art | case |
| 49 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 art | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 49 man | case |
| 51 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 I | conj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 wiles | punct |
| 53 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 54 wiles | cc |
| 54 | wiles | wile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 deceived | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 Destiny | case |
| 56 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 54 wiles | nmod |
| 57 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the old man | God obl; whom nsubj; tremulously property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | past · perfect | God | night | ne’er nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | confuse | past | shriek on shriek | the revelry | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent revelry=Patient | ||||
| 4 | bear | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | foretell | participle | I | new born Infant's fate nsubj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | deceive | past | wiles of Destiny | for ne’er in ninety years | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a | past | I | man's art conj | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | fate | new born Infant | nom 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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