The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 13
And since she scorned her music to abate, Nor ceased to freeze their triumph with her dirge, The princes and the people rose in hate And hurled her harp and her into the surge: Yet still, halfway ’twixt midnight and the morn, That dirge swelled up, by tempest onward borne!
Who acts: Fate, Nor, people, twixt midnight, eyes · What happens: scorn, abate, cease, freeze, rise, hurl · To what, where: music, triumph, hate, harp
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 (Fate, Nor, people, twixt midnight), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ceased | cc |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 4 scorned | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 scorned | nsubj |
| 4 | scorned | scorn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | advcl |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 music | nmod:poss |
| 6 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 scorned | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 abate | mark |
| 8 | abate | abate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 scorned | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 scorned | punct |
| 10 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ceased | nsubj |
| 11 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 freeze | mark |
| 13 | freeze | freeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ceased | xcomp |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 triumph | nmod:poss |
| 15 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 freeze | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 dirge | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 dirge | nmod:poss |
| 18 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 freeze | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 princes | punct |
| 20 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 princes | det |
| 21 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 dirge | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rose | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 people | det |
| 24 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 rose | nsubj |
| 25 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | conj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 hate | case |
| 27 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 28 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hurled | cc |
| 29 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 rose | conj |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 harp | nmod:poss |
| 31 | harp | harp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hurled | obj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 her | cc |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 rose | conj |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 surge | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 surge | det |
| 36 | surge | surge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 rose | obl |
| 37 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 midnight | punct |
| 38 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 44 midnight | cc |
| 39 | still | still | ADV | _ | 44 midnight | advmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 midnight | punct |
| 41 | halfway | halfway | ADV | _ | 44 midnight | advmod |
| 42 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 midnight | punct |
| 43 | twixt | twixt | PROPN | _ | 44 midnight | compound |
| 44 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 swelled | nsubj |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 morn | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 morn | det |
| 47 | morn | morn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 midnight | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 swelled | punct |
| 49 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 dirge | det |
| 50 | dirge | dirge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 swelled | nsubj |
| 51 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ceased | advcl |
| 52 | up | up | ADP | _ | 51 swelled | compound:prt |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 tempest | punct |
| 54 | by | by | ADP | _ | 55 tempest | case |
| 55 | tempest | temp | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 51 swelled | obl:unmarked |
| 56 | onward | onward | ADV | _ | 57 borne | advmod |
| 57 | borne | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 55 tempest | advcl |
| 58 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scorn | past | Fate | Fate's music | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | abate | to-infinitive | Fate not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | cease | past | Nor | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | freeze | to-infinitive | Nor not said here | eyes's triumph | with Fate's dirge and the princes | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent triumph=Patient with dirge=Instrument | |||
| 5 | rise | past | the people | hate | into the surge; Fate conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hate=Location | |||
| 6 | hurl | past | the people not said here | Fate's harp | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harp=Theme | ||||
| 7 | swell up | past | twixt midnight and the morn | by tempest; that dirge nsubj | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 8 | bear | participle | twixt midnight and the morn not said here | onward property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 9 | triumph | eyes = eye | nom triumph «event intransitive»: 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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