The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 78
The sun was rising; and at set of sun Entered once more her father’s palace gate: Seated thereby, his nobles, every one, Arose and welcomed her with loving state: She answered naught, but sternly past them strode And found her girlhood’s bower, and there abode.
Who acts: sun, attendants · What happens: rise, enter, seat, welcome, answer, stride · To what, where: set, nobles, sun, naught, bower
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 (sun, attendants), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rising | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rising | aux |
| 4 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 Entered | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Entered | cc |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 set | case |
| 8 | set | set | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Entered | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sun | case |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | nmod |
| 11 | Entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rising | advcl |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 Entered | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 gate | advmod |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 father | case |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gate | compound |
| 18 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 once | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 Seated | punct |
| 20 | Seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 rising | parataxis |
| 21 | thereby | thereby | ADV | _ | 20 Seated | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 nobles | punct |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 24 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 Seated | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 one | punct |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 one | det |
| 27 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 nobles | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 Arose | punct |
| 29 | Arose | Arose | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Seated | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 welcomed | cc |
| 31 | welcomed | welcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Seated | conj |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 welcomed | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 state | case |
| 34 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 state | amod |
| 35 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 welcomed | obl |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 answered | punct |
| 37 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 answered | nsubj |
| 38 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rising | parataxis |
| 39 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | 38 answered | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 strode | punct |
| 41 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 45 strode | cc |
| 42 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 45 strode | advmod |
| 43 | past | past | ADP | _ | 45 strode | mark |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 strode | nsubj |
| 45 | strode | stride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 answered | conj |
| 46 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 found | cc |
| 47 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 strode | conj |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 girlhood | nmod:poss |
| 49 | girlhood | girlhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 bower | nmod:poss |
| 50 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 49 girlhood | case |
| 51 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 found | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 55 abode | punct |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 abode | cc |
| 54 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 55 abode | expl |
| 55 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 answered | parataxis |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 rising | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · progressive | the sun | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enter | past | the sun not said here | set of sun | once property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | seat | participle | father's nobles | Arose obl; thereby property | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 4 | welcome | past | sun | with loving state | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 5 | answer speech: assert | past | sun | naught | abode there parataxis | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent naught=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | stride | past | attendants = attendant | sternly property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | find | past | attendants = attendant not said here | sun's girlhood's bower | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bower=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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