The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 33
Fast-speeding Time, albeit the wounded wing He may not bind, brings us at least the crutch;-- Winter was over, and the on-flying Spring Grazed the sad monarch’s brow with heavenly touch, And raised the head, now whitening, from the ground, And stanched, not healed, the heart’s eternal wound.
Who acts: homeward, speeding Time, Winter, flying Spring, heart · What happens: not bind, bring, be, fly, graze, raise · To what, where: wounded wing, us, brow, head, ground
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 (homeward, speeding Time, Winter, flying Spring), 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 | Fast | fast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 speeding | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fast | punct |
| 3 | speeding | speeding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Time | compound |
| 4 | Time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wing | punct |
| 6 | albeit | albeit | ADP | _ | 9 wing | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wing | det |
| 8 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wing | amod |
| 9 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Time | appos |
| 10 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bind | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bind | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 bind | advmod |
| 13 | bind | bind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wing | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Time | punct |
| 15 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 brings | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 least | case |
| 18 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 crutch | nmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 crutch | det |
| 20 | crutch | crutch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brings | parataxis |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 over | punct |
| 22 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 25 over | punct |
| 23 | Winter | Winter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 over | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 over | cop |
| 25 | over | over | ADV | _ | 15 brings | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 Grazed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Grazed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Spring | det |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 Spring | case |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 on | punct |
| 31 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 Spring | amod |
| 32 | Spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Grazed | nsubj |
| 33 | Grazed | graze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brings | parataxis |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 monarch | det |
| 35 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 monarch | amod |
| 36 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 brow | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 monarch | case |
| 38 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Grazed | obj |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 touch | case |
| 40 | heavenly | heavenly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 touch | amod |
| 41 | touch | touch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Grazed | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 raised | punct |
| 43 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 raised | cc |
| 44 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 brings | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 head | det |
| 46 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 raised | obj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 whitening | punct |
| 48 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 49 whitening | advmod |
| 49 | whitening | whiten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 44 raised | advcl |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 ground | punct |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 53 ground | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 ground | det |
| 53 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 whitening | obl |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 stanched | punct |
| 55 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 stanched | cc |
| 56 | stanched | stanch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 raised | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 59 healed | punct |
| 58 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 59 healed | advmod |
| 59 | healed | heal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 56 stanched | parataxis |
| 60 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 wound | punct |
| 61 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 heart | det |
| 62 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 wound | nmod:poss |
| 63 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 62 heart | case |
| 64 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 wound | amod |
| 65 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 59 healed | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not bind | may | homeward | the wounded wing not said here | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | speeding Time | us | the crutch at least parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination | |||
| 3 | is | past | Winter | over property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | graze | past | the flying Spring | the sad monarch's brow | with heavenly touch | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent brow=Experiencer with touch=Instrument | |||
| 6 | raise | past | the head | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 7 | whiten | gerund | the ground | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 8 | stanch | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 9 | not heal | participle | the heart's eternal wound conj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 10 | wound | the heart | nom wound «state transitive»: 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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