The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 74
Then fell a dew of meekness on the proud Noting their humble heart; and drooped her front; And sorrow closed around her like a cloud; And thus with other voice than was her wont To those soft victims of her wrath she cried: ‘Woe, woe!
Who acts: heart · What happens: fall, note, droop, close, be, cry · To what, where: dew, proud, humble heart, front, sorrow, wrath
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 (heart), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 fell | advmod |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dew | det |
| 4 | dew | dew | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 meekness | case |
| 6 | meekness | meekness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dew | nmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 proud | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 proud | det |
| 9 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 fell | obl |
| 10 | Noting | note | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 proud | advcl |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 12 | humble | humble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 heart | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Noting | obj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 drooped | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 drooped | cc |
| 16 | drooped | droop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 front | nmod:poss |
| 18 | front | front | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 drooped | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 closed | punct |
| 20 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 closed | cc |
| 21 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 fell | parataxis |
| 23 | around | around | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 closed | obl |
| 25 | like | like | ADP | _ | 27 cloud | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 cloud | det |
| 27 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 closed | obl |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 voice | punct |
| 29 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 voice | cc |
| 30 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 33 voice | advmod |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 voice | case |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 voice | amod |
| 33 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 34 | than | than | ADP | _ | 37 wont | case |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 wont | cop |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 wont | nmod:poss |
| 37 | wont | wont | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 voice | nmod |
| 38 | To | to | ADP | _ | 41 victims | case |
| 39 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 41 victims | det |
| 40 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 victims | amod |
| 41 | victims | victim | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 wont | nmod |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 wrath | case |
| 43 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 wrath | nmod:poss |
| 44 | wrath | wrath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 victims | nmod |
| 45 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 cried | nsubj |
| 46 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 wrath | acl:relcl |
| 47 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 Woe | punct |
| 48 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 49 Woe | punct |
| 49 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 voice | appos |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 woe | punct |
| 51 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 Woe | conj |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 49 Woe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a dew of meekness | the proud | then | with other voice | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient dew=Result | ||
| 2 | note | gerund | names's humble heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent heart=Topic | |||||
| 3 | droop | past | heart's front | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location front=Theme | |||||
| 4 | close | participle · passive | sorrow | around heart; like a cloud | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is | past | than heart's wont; to that soft victims of heart's wrath; heart nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | past | heart | heart's wrath not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrath=Topic |
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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