The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 55
The voice of man we list no more Till he, the Tailkenn, comes to sound the knell Of darkness, and rings out his gladsome bell.’
Who acts: voice, Tailkenn · What happens: list, come, sound, ring out, knell · To what, where: more, knell, gladsome bell, darkness
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 (voice, Tailkenn), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 voice | det |
| 2 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 list | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 man | case |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 voice | nmod |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 list | nsubj |
| 6 | list | list | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 more | det |
| 8 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 list | obj |
| 9 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 10 he | case |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 list | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tailkenn | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tailkenn | det |
| 13 | Tailkenn | Tailkenn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Tailkenn | punct |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 list | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sound | mark |
| 17 | sound | sound | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 comes | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 knell | det |
| 19 | knell | knell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sound | obj |
| 20 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 21 darkness | case |
| 21 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knell | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 rings | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 rings | cc |
| 24 | rings | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 comes | conj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 24 rings | compound:prt |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bell | nmod:poss |
| 27 | gladsome | gladsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 bell | amod |
| 28 | bell | bell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rings | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 list | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 list | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | list | present | the voice of man | no more | till man | we nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | come | present | the Tailkenn | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sound | to-infinitive | the Tailkenn not said here | the knell of darkness | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location knell=Theme | ||||
| 4 | ring out | present | the Tailkenn not said here | Tailkenn's gladsome bell | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bell=Theme | ||||
| 5 | knell | darkness | nom knell «event transitive»: of=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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