The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 25
Thou shalt be with them when the sleet-wind blows Not less than in the violet-braided bower: Through thee the desert sands shall bud the rose, The wild wave anthems sing!
Who acts: Thou, sleet wind, desert, thee, wild wave anthems · What happens: be, blow, braid, sand, bud, sing · To what, where: less, rose
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 (Thou, sleet wind, desert, thee), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 them | nsubj |
| 2 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 them | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 them | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 blows | obl |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 11 blows | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 wind | det |
| 8 | sleet | sleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wind | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 sleet | punct |
| 10 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 blows | nsubj |
| 11 | blows | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 blows | obj |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 bower | case |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 bower | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 bower | det |
| 17 | violet | violet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 braided | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 violet | punct |
| 19 | braided | braid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 bower | amod |
| 20 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 less | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 bud | punct |
| 22 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 bud | nsubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 desert | det |
| 25 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sands | nsubj |
| 26 | sands | sand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 thee | acl:relcl |
| 27 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 bud | aux |
| 28 | bud | bud | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 blows | conj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 rose | det |
| 30 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bud | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 sing | punct |
| 32 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 anthems | det |
| 33 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 anthems | amod |
| 34 | wave | wave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 anthems | compound |
| 35 | anthems | anthem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 sing | nsubj |
| 36 | sing | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 bud | conj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 blows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | shall | Thou | with methinks = methink | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | blow | present | the sleet wind | less than the braided bower | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent less=Patient | ||||
| 3 | braid | participle | violet compound | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sand | present | the desert | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | bud | shall | thee | the rose | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | present | the wild wave anthems | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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