The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 73
Lo, as a band of lilies, white and tall Beneath a breeze of morning bend their head High held in virgin state majestical, So meekly cowered those swans in holy dread Hearing that promised Tailkenn’s blissful name: For they long since had heard in dream the same.
Who acts: head, holy dread Hearing, names, morning, Tailkenn · What happens: bend, hold, cower, promise, hear, breeze · To what, where: virgin state, swans, holy dread Hearing, blissful name, same, dream
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 (head, holy dread Hearing, names, morning), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 17 bend | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 5 band | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 band | det |
| 5 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bend | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 lilies | case |
| 7 | lilies | lily | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 band | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 white | punct |
| 9 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lilies | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 tall | cc |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 white | conj |
| 12 | Beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 14 breeze | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 white | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 morning | case |
| 16 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 breeze | nmod |
| 17 | bend | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 head | nmod:poss |
| 19 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | nsubj |
| 20 | High | high | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 held | advmod |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 bend | ccomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 state | case |
| 23 | virgin | virgin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 24 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 25 | majestical | majestical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 state | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 cowered | punct |
| 27 | So | so | ADV | _ | 29 cowered | advmod |
| 28 | meekly | meekly | ADV | _ | 29 cowered | advmod |
| 29 | cowered | cower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 bend | conj |
| 30 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 swans | det |
| 31 | swans | swan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 cowered | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Hearing | case |
| 33 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Hearing | amod |
| 34 | dread | dread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 Hearing | compound |
| 35 | Hearing | hearing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cowered | obl |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 promised | nsubj |
| 37 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 Hearing | acl:relcl |
| 38 | Tailkenn | Tailkenn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 name | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 Tailkenn | case |
| 40 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 name | amod |
| 41 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 promised | obj |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 48 heard | punct |
| 43 | For | for | ADP | _ | 48 heard | case |
| 44 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 48 heard | nsubj |
| 45 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 48 heard | advmod |
| 46 | since | since | ADV | _ | 48 heard | advmod |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 heard | aux |
| 48 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 bend | conj |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 dream | case |
| 50 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 heard | obl |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 same | det |
| 52 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 heard | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 bend | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bend | present | as a band of lilies | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hold | past | breezes's head | virgin state | high property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in state=Location | |||
| 3 | cower | participle | that swans | holy dread Hearing | meekly property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | past | holy dread Hearing | Tailkenn's blissful name | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent name=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hear | past · perfect | names = name | the same | dream | long, since property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer same=Stimulus | ||
| 6 | breeze | morning | nom breeze «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 7 | name | Tailkenn | nom name «communication 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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