The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 6
Still here and there Tuatha princes ruled Now in green vale, and now on pale blue coast, A warrior one, and one in magic schooled; The graver made Druidic lore their boast, And knew the secret might of star and leaf: Grey-haired King Bove stood up of these the chief.
Who acts: Tuatha princes, one, graver, Grey haired King Bove, princes · What happens: rule, school, make, know, stand up, boast · To what, where: green vale, Druidic lore, these
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 (Tuatha princes, one, graver, Grey haired 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 here | advmod |
| 2 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 there | cc |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 here | conj |
| 5 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 princes | compound |
| 6 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 ruled | nsubj |
| 7 | ruled | rule | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 ruled | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 vale | case |
| 10 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 vale | amod |
| 11 | vale | vale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coast | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coast | cc |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 coast | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 coast | case |
| 16 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coast | amod |
| 17 | blue | blue | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coast | amod |
| 18 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ruled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 one | punct |
| 20 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 one | det |
| 21 | warrior | warrior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 one | amod |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coast | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 schooled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 schooled | cc |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 schooled | nsubj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 magic | case |
| 27 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nmod |
| 28 | schooled | school | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ruled | conj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 made | punct |
| 30 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 graver | det |
| 31 | graver | graver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | nsubj |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ruled | conj |
| 33 | Druidic | druidic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 lore | amod |
| 34 | lore | lore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 boast | nmod:poss |
| 36 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 made | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 knew | punct |
| 38 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 knew | cc |
| 39 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 made | parataxis |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 secret | det |
| 41 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 star | nsubj |
| 42 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 star | aux |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 star | case |
| 44 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 knew | ccomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 leaf | cc |
| 46 | leaf | leaf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 star | conj |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 53 stood | punct |
| 48 | Grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Bove | amod |
| 49 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 48 Grey | punct |
| 50 | haired | haired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 Bove | amod |
| 51 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 52 Bove | compound |
| 52 | Bove | Bove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 53 stood | nsubj |
| 53 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 star | conj |
| 54 | up | up | ADP | _ | 56 these | case |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 up | fixed |
| 56 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 53 stood | obl |
| 57 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 58 chief | det |
| 58 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 stood | obl:unmarked |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ruled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rule | past | Tuatha princes | green vale; here; there | now; still | on pale blue coast and a warrior one | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | school | participle | one in magic | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the graver | Druidic lore | princes's boast obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset lore=Beneficiary boast=Product | |||
| 4 | know | past | star the secret and leaf ccomp | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | stand up | past | Grey haired King Bove | these | the chief obl:unmarked | tree rules | |||
| 6 | boast | princes = prince | nom boast «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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