The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 57
Alone the Three And Deirdré, spite of spells, illusion-proof, Saw still green field, and heaven’s unclouded roof.
Who acts: Three, heaven ’s · What happens: see, uncloud, roof, spite · To what, where: green field, spells
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 (Three, heaven ’s), 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 | Alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 Three | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Three | det |
| 3 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Saw | nsubj |
| 4 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Deirdré | cc |
| 5 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Three | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spite | punct |
| 7 | spite | spite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Saw | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 spells | case |
| 9 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spite | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 proof | punct |
| 11 | illusion | illusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proof | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 illusion | punct |
| 13 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spells | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spite | punct |
| 15 | Saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 green | advmod |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 field | amod |
| 18 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Saw | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roof | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 roof | cc |
| 21 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ’s | compound |
| 22 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 roof | nsubj |
| 23 | unclouded | uncloud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 roof | amod |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Saw | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Three and Deirdré | green field | spite of spells and illusion proof nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | uncloud | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | roof | heaven ’s | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | spite | spells and illusion proof | nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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