The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 10
She moved amid the crafty as a child; Amid the lawless, chaste as unsunned maid; Amid the unsparing, as a turtle mild; Wondering at wrong; too gentle to upbraid: Yet many a fell resolve, as she rode by, Died at its birth--the ill-thinker knew not why!
Who acts: e’er, many, ill thinker · What happens: move, wonder, upbraid, fall, ride by, die · To what, where: amid, wrong, resolve, birth
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (e’er, many, ill thinker), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 moved | nsubj |
| 2 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crafty | det |
| 5 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moved | xcomp |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 child | det |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 Amid | punct |
| 10 | Amid | Amid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Amid | det |
| 12 | lawless | lawless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Amid | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 chaste | punct |
| 14 | chaste | chaste | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 lawless | conj |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 maid | case |
| 16 | unsunned | unsunned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 maid | amod |
| 17 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 chaste | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Amid | punct |
| 19 | Amid | Amid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Amid | appos |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 unsparing | det |
| 21 | unsparing | unsparing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moved | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 mild | punct |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 mild | mark |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 turtle | det |
| 25 | turtle | turtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 mild | nsubj |
| 26 | mild | mild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moved | parataxis |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 Wondering | punct |
| 28 | Wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 mild | advcl |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 wrong | case |
| 30 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Wondering | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
| 32 | too | too | ADV | _ | 33 gentle | advmod |
| 33 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 moved | advcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 upbraid | mark |
| 35 | upbraid | upbraid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 gentle | xcomp |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 fell | punct |
| 37 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 40 fell | cc |
| 38 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 fell | nsubj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 fell | det |
| 40 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 moved | parataxis |
| 41 | resolve | resolve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 fell | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 rode | punct |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 45 rode | mark |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 rode | nsubj |
| 45 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fell | conj |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 rode | obl |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Died | punct |
| 48 | Died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 rode | conj |
| 49 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 birth | case |
| 50 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 birth | nmod:poss |
| 51 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Died | obl |
| 52 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 57 knew | punct |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 56 thinker | det |
| 54 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 thinker | amod |
| 55 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 54 ill | punct |
| 56 | thinker | thinker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 knew | nsubj |
| 57 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 fell | conj |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 57 knew | advmod |
| 59 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 57 knew | advmod |
| 60 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past | e’er = e'er | amid | as a child; Amid obl; the unsparing obj; crafty property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: agent=Agent amid=Theme unsparing=Result | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | e’er = e'er not said here | wrong | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | upbraid | to-infinitive | e’er = e'er not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | many | resolve | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient resolve=Result | ||||
| 5 | ride by | past | e’er = e'er | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | die | past | e’er = e'er not said here | turtle's birth | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | not know | past | the ill thinker | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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