The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 81
Long in silent thought The old man stood, then murmured in low tone, ‘I loved those children better than mine own!’
Who acts: old man, I, mine · What happens: think, stand, murmur, love, own · To what, where: low tone, children · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old man, I, mine), 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 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 thought | advcl |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 3 silent | case |
| 3 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Long | obl |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 murmured | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 murmured | advmod |
| 11 | murmured | murmur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tone | case |
| 13 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tone | amod |
| 14 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 murmured | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 loved | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 loved | nsubj |
| 18 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | parataxis |
| 19 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 children | det |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 loved | obj |
| 21 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 loved | advmod |
| 22 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 24 own | mark |
| 23 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 own | nsubj |
| 24 | own | own | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 better | advcl |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | stand | past | the old man | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | murmur speech: other | past | the old man not said here | low tone | then | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tone=Location | |||
| 4 | love | past | I | that children | well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer child=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | own | present | mine | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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