The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 31
In silence still they stood an hour and more, Till through the West had sunk the great red sun, And from the castle wall and turrets hoar The latest crimson utterly had gone: At last the truth had reached them! then on high An orphaned People hurled its funeral cry.
Who acts: queens, West, latest crimson, People, crimson · What happens: stand, sink, go, reach, orphan, hurl · To what, where: silence, great red sun, castle wall, queens, last truth, high
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 (queens, West, latest crimson, People), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 silence | case |
| 2 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obl |
| 3 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 stood | advmod |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stood | nsubj |
| 5 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stood | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 more | cc |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 stood | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sunk | punct |
| 11 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 sunk | mark |
| 12 | through | through | SCONJ | _ | 16 sunk | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 West | det |
| 14 | West | West | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sunk | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sunk | aux |
| 16 | sunk | sink | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 sun | det |
| 18 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sun | amod |
| 19 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 sun | amod |
| 20 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sunk | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 gone | punct |
| 22 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 gone | cc |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 wall | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 wall | det |
| 25 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wall | compound |
| 26 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gone | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hoar | cc |
| 28 | turrets | turret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 hoar | compound |
| 29 | hoar | hoar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wall | conj |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 crimson | det |
| 31 | latest | late | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 crimson | amod |
| 32 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 gone | nsubj |
| 33 | utterly | utterly | ADV | _ | 35 gone | advmod |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 gone | aux |
| 35 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | conj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 42 reached | punct |
| 37 | At | at | ADP | _ | 40 truth | case |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 truth | amod |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 truth | det |
| 40 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 reached | obl |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 reached | aux |
| 42 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 stood | parataxis |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 reached | obj |
| 44 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 42 reached | punct |
| 45 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 orphaned | advmod |
| 46 | on | on | ADP | _ | 47 high | case |
| 47 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 orphaned | obl |
| 48 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 orphaned | advmod |
| 49 | orphaned | orphan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 reached | advcl |
| 50 | People | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 hurled | nsubj |
| 51 | hurled | hurl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 orphaned | ccomp |
| 52 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 cry | nmod:poss |
| 53 | funeral | funeral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 cry | compound |
| 54 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 hurled | obj |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | queens = queen | silence | still; hour | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | |||
| 2 | sink | past · perfect | the West | the great red sun | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sun=Patient | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | the latest crimson | the castle wall and turrets hoar | utterly property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from wall=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | reach | past · perfect | queens = queen | the last truth | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme at truth=Asset | ||||
| 5 | orphan | past | high | then | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | hurl | past | People | crimson's funeral cry | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 7 | cry | crimson | nom cry «communication 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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