The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 20
These beauteous creatures with their mother shared Alike her blissful nature and sweet looks, Like her swan-soft, swan-white, blue-eyed, bright-haired, With voices musical as birds or brooks: Beings they seemed reserved for some great fate, Mysterious, high, elect, and separate.
Who acts: beauteous creatures · What happens: share, reserve · To what, where: Beings
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 (beauteous creatures), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 creatures | det |
| 2 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 creatures | amod |
| 3 | creatures | creature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shared | nsubj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 mother | case |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 creatures | nmod |
| 7 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Alike | alike | ADP | _ | 11 nature | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nature | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 nature | amod |
| 11 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shared | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 looks | cc |
| 13 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looks | amod |
| 14 | looks | look | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 nature | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 soft | punct |
| 16 | Like | like | SCONJ | _ | 20 soft | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 soft | nmod:poss |
| 18 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 soft | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 swan | punct |
| 20 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shared | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 white | punct |
| 22 | swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 white | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 swan | punct |
| 24 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 soft | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 eyed | punct |
| 26 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyed | amod |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 blue | punct |
| 28 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 soft | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 haired | punct |
| 30 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 haired | amod |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 bright | punct |
| 32 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 eyed | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 voices | punct |
| 34 | With | with | ADP | _ | 35 voices | case |
| 35 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 musical | obl:unmarked |
| 36 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shared | parataxis |
| 37 | as | as | ADP | _ | 38 birds | case |
| 38 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 musical | obl |
| 39 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 40 brooks | cc |
| 40 | brooks | brook | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 birds | conj |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 45 reserved | punct |
| 42 | Beings | being | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 reserved | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 reserved | nsubj |
| 44 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 reserved | aux:pass |
| 45 | reserved | reserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 shared | parataxis |
| 46 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 fate | case |
| 47 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 fate | det |
| 48 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 fate | amod |
| 49 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 reserved | obl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 Mysterious | punct |
| 51 | Mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 fate | amod |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 high | punct |
| 53 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 Mysterious | conj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 elect | punct |
| 55 | elect | elect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 fate | conj |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 separate | punct |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 separate | cc |
| 58 | separate | separate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 reserved | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | this beauteous creatures with creatures's mother | alike yearling's blissful nature and sweet looks | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reserve | past · passive | Beings | for some great fate and elect | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for fate=Beneficiary |
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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