The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 33
And ever, when the sacred night descended, While with those ripples on the sandy bars The sighing woods and winds low murmurs blended, Their music fell upon them from the stars, And they gave utterance to that gift divine In silver song or anthem crystalline.
Who acts: music, stars · What happens: descend, blend, fall, give · To what, where: low murmurs, stars, utterance, gift divine
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 (music, stars), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 descended | cc |
| 2 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 8 descended | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 descended | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 descended | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 night | det |
| 6 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 fell | punct |
| 10 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 fell | mark |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 ripples | case |
| 12 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 ripples | det |
| 13 | ripples | ripple | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fell | obl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 bars | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bars | det |
| 16 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 bars | amod |
| 17 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 ripples | nmod |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woods | det |
| 19 | sighing | sighing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 woods | compound |
| 20 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bars | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 winds | cc |
| 22 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bars | conj |
| 23 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 murmurs | amod |
| 24 | murmurs | murmur | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bars | conj |
| 25 | blended | blend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 murmurs | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 ripples | punct |
| 27 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 music | nmod:poss |
| 28 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fell | nsubj |
| 29 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 descended | parataxis |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 them | case |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 fell | obl |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 34 stars | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 stars | det |
| 34 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fell | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gave | punct |
| 36 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 gave | cc |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 gave | nsubj |
| 38 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 fell | conj |
| 39 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 divine | case |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 43 divine | det |
| 42 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 divine | compound |
| 43 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 gave | obl |
| 44 | In | in | ADP | _ | 46 song | case |
| 45 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 song | compound |
| 46 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 divine | nmod |
| 47 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 anthem | cc |
| 48 | anthem | anthem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 song | conj |
| 49 | crystalline | crystalline | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 song | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | participle | ever; night | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | blend | participle | low murmurs not said here | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | fall | past | murmurs's music | the stars | with that ripples on the sandy bars and the sighing woods and winds and low murmurs; upon murmurs = murmur | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | |||
| 4 | give | past | stars = star | utterance | that gift divine in silver song or anthem and crystalline | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to divine=Recipient |
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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