The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 2
Then, each and all, clamorous they made lament Recounting all their wrong, and all the woe; And Lir, their tale complete, his garment rent, Till then transfixed like marble shape; and lo!
Who acts: babes, lament, Lir · What happens: make, recount, transfix, tell, rent · To what, where: each, wrong, garment rent · 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 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (babes, lament, Lir), 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 | 9 made | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 made | obl |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 clamorous | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 clamorous | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | clamorous | clamorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 each | conj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | nsubj |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | Recounting | recount | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 lament | acl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 wrong | det:predet |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wrong | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Recounting | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 woe | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 woe | cc |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 woe | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 woe | det |
| 19 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lir | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Lir | cc |
| 22 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 made | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 tale | punct |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tale | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lir | appos |
| 26 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 tale | amod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rent | punct |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 rent | nmod:poss |
| 29 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rent | compound |
| 30 | rent | rent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Lir | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 transfixed | punct |
| 32 | Till | till | SCONJ | _ | 34 transfixed | mark |
| 33 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 transfixed | advmod |
| 34 | transfixed | transfix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 rent | acl:relcl |
| 35 | like | like | ADP | _ | 37 shape | case |
| 36 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 shape | amod |
| 37 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 transfixed | obl |
| 38 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 lo | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 lo | cc |
| 40 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 9 made | discourse |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | babes = babe | each | then | all woe obl; Lir obl; lament obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lament=Product | ||
| 2 | recount speech: other | gerund | lament not said here | babes's wrong | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wrong=Topic | ||||
| 3 | transfix | participle | Lir's garment rent not said here | then | like marble shape | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | tell | babes = babe | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | rent | Lir | nom rent «possession 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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