The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 55
I wither in my prime: Home to my father I would speed, and drink Once more the breezes of my native clime.
Who acts: I, native clime · What happens: wither, speed, breeze · To what, where: prime, drink
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 (I, native clime), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wither | nsubj |
| 2 | wither | wither | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 prime | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 prime | nmod:poss |
| 5 | prime | prime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wither | obl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 speed | punct |
| 7 | Home | home | ADV | _ | 13 speed | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speed | obl |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 speed | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 speed | aux |
| 13 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 wither | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drink | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drink | cc |
| 16 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speed | obl |
| 17 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 more | advmod |
| 18 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 breezes | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 breezes | det |
| 20 | breezes | breeze | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 speed | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 clime | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 clime | nmod:poss |
| 23 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 clime | amod |
| 24 | clime | clime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 breezes | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wither | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | present | I | my prime | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | speed | would | I | drink | to my father result; the breezes of my native clime obl; home property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to father=Result | |||
| 3 | breeze | my native clime | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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