The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 37
Not once ’tis whispered in that ancient story They raised their voice God’s justice to arraign: All patient suffering is expiatory: Their doom was linked with hope of Erin’s gain; And, like the Holy Elders famed of old, Those babes on that high promise kept their hold.
Who acts: sufferers, tis, Holy Elders, babes, gain · What happens: whisper, raise, arraign, be, link, fame · To what, where: tis, ancient story, voice, doom, hold
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 (sufferers, tis, Holy Elders, babes), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 once | advmod |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 expiatory | advmod |
| 3 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 once | punct |
| 4 | tis | tis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expiatory | nsubj |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tis | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 story | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 story | det |
| 8 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 story | amod |
| 9 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | obl |
| 10 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 story | acl:relcl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 voice | nmod:poss |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obj |
| 14 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 justice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 God | case |
| 16 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 arraign | mark |
| 18 | arraign | arraign | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 raised | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 expiatory | punct |
| 20 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 suffering | det |
| 21 | patient | patient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 suffering | amod |
| 22 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 expiatory | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 expiatory | cop |
| 24 | expiatory | expiatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 linked | punct |
| 26 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 doom | nmod:poss |
| 27 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 linked | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 linked | aux:pass |
| 29 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 expiatory | advcl |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 hope | case |
| 31 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 linked | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 gain | case |
| 33 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 gain | nmod:poss |
| 34 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 33 Erin | case |
| 35 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hope | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 famed | punct |
| 37 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 famed | cc |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 And | punct |
| 39 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 Elders | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Elders | det |
| 41 | Holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Elders | amod |
| 42 | Elders | Elder | PROPN | Number=Plur | 43 famed | nsubj |
| 43 | famed | fame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 expiatory | conj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 old | case |
| 45 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 famed | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 babes | punct |
| 47 | Those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 48 babes | det |
| 48 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 53 kept | nsubj |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 52 promise | case |
| 50 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 52 promise | det |
| 51 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 promise | amod |
| 52 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 babes | nmod |
| 53 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 famed | parataxis |
| 54 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 hold | nmod:poss |
| 55 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 kept | obj |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 expiatory | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | participle | tis not said here | that ancient story | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in story=Location | ||||
| 2 | raise | past | sufferers = sufferer | sufferers's voice God's justice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | arraign | to-infinitive | sufferers = sufferer not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | tis | all patient suffering nsubj; expiatory, once property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | link | past · passive | sufferers's doom | with hope of Erin's gain | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with hope=Co-Patient | ||||
| 6 | fame | past | the Holy Elders | of old | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | keep | past | that babes on that high promise | sufferers's hold | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 8 | doom | sufferers = sufferer | nom doom «event transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | hope | Erin's gain | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 10 | hold | sufferers = sufferer | nom hold «act 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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