The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 51
And thus Finola sang, while, far and near, The men of Erin wept that strain to hear:
Who acts: Finola, men · What happens: sing, weep, hear · To what, where: strain
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 (Finola, men), 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 | _ | 4 sang | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 sang | advmod |
| 3 | Finola | Finola | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sang | nsubj |
| 4 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 wept | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 far | punct |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 far | mark |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 far | punct |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 sang | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 near | cc |
| 10 | near | near | ADV | _ | 8 far | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 men | punct |
| 12 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 men | det |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wept | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Erin | case |
| 15 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 men | nmod |
| 16 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 strain | det |
| 18 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wept | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 hear | mark |
| 20 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 strain | acl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | past | Finola | far, thus property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the men of Erin | that strain | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent strain=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | to-infinitive | the men of Erin not said here | that strain not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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