The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 39
On the third The king led forth his daughter--o’er her glowed A dim veil jewel-tissued--with this word: ‘Behold thy wife!
Who acts: king, Bove · What happens: lead, glow, tissue · To what, where: daughter, third, dim veil
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 (king, Bove), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 third | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 third | det |
| 3 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 4 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | nsubj |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 led | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 9 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obj |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 glowed | punct |
| 11 | o’er | o'er | SCONJ | _ | 13 glowed | mark |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 glowed | nsubj |
| 13 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 14 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 veil | det |
| 15 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 veil | amod |
| 16 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glowed | obj |
| 17 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tissued | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 jewel | punct |
| 19 | tissued | tissue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 veil | acl:relcl |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 word | punct |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 word | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 word | det |
| 23 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glowed | obl |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 word | punct |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 word | punct |
| 26 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 28 wife | discourse |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 wife | nmod:poss |
| 28 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 glowed | parataxis |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the king | King's daughter | the third | forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme on third=Destination | ||
| 2 | glow | past | Bove | a dim veil | with this word; thy wife parataxis | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent veil=Theme | |||
| 3 | tissue | participle | a dim veil not said here | jewel compound | tree rules |
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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