The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 36
Lulled by that strain the prophet king let drop In death his Druid-Staff by Darvra’s side; And there in later years with happy hope King Lir, that mystic requiem listening, died: And there those blissful sufferers bore their wrong All day in weeping, and all night in song.
Who acts: prophet king, that, King, blissful sufferers · What happens: lull, strain, let, drop, listening, die · To what, where: Druid, death, wrong
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 (prophet king, that, King, blissful sufferers), 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 | Lulled | lull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 strain | amod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 that | case |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Lulled | obl |
| 4 | strain | strain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 let | nsubj |
| 8 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strain | ccomp |
| 9 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 let | xcomp |
| 10 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | obl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Druid | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Druid | druid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | obj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Staff | punct |
| 15 | Staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Druid | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 side | case |
| 17 | Darvra | Darvra | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 side | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Darvra | case |
| 19 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drop | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 died | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 died | cc |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 37 died | expl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 24 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 years | amod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 died | obl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 hope | case |
| 27 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 hope | amod |
| 28 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 died | obl |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 died | nsubj |
| 30 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 King | flat |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 listening | punct |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 listening | nsubj |
| 33 | mystic | mystic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 listening | amod |
| 34 | requiem | requiem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 listening | compound |
| 35 | listening | listening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 King | appos |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 listening | punct |
| 37 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strain | parataxis |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 44 bore | punct |
| 39 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 bore | cc |
| 40 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 44 bore | expl |
| 41 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 43 sufferers | det |
| 42 | blissful | blissful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sufferers | amod |
| 43 | sufferers | sufferer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 bore | nsubj |
| 44 | bore | bear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 strain | parataxis |
| 45 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 wrong | nmod:poss |
| 46 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 bore | obj |
| 47 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 day | det |
| 48 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bore | obl:unmarked |
| 49 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 weeping | case |
| 50 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 day | nmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 night | punct |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 night | cc |
| 53 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 54 night | det |
| 54 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strain | obl:unmarked |
| 55 | in | in | ADP | _ | 56 song | case |
| 56 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 night | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 strain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lull | participle | by that | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | strain | present | night | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let | past | the prophet king | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | drop | infinitive | the prophet king not said here | King's Druid and Staff | death | by Darvra's side | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent druid=Theme in death=Destination by side=Initial_Location | ||
| 5 | listening | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | die | past | King | there | year | with happy hope | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||
| 7 | bear | past | that blissful sufferers | sufferers's wrong | there | day | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wrong=Patient |
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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