The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 72
And God, Who of least things has tenderest thought, Looked down on them benignly from on high, And bade that bitter brine to enter not Their scars, unhealed as yet, lest they should die; And nearer sent their choicest food full oft, And clothed their wings with plumage fine and soft.
Who acts: that, scars, things · What happens: think, look down, brine, not enter, unheal, die · To what, where: God, scars, choicest food, wings
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 (that, scars, things), 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 | _ | 10 thought | cc |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 has | punct |
| 4 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 has | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 things | case |
| 6 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 things | amod |
| 7 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Who | nmod |
| 8 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | aux |
| 9 | tenderest | tender | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 has | obj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Looked | punct |
| 12 | Looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 thought | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADP | _ | 12 Looked | compound:prt |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 them | case |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Looked | obl |
| 16 | benignly | benignly | ADV | _ | 12 Looked | advmod |
| 17 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 high | case |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 high | case |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 benignly | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bade | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bade | cc |
| 22 | bade | bade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 brine | nsubj |
| 24 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 brine | amod |
| 25 | brine | brine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bade | appos |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 enter | mark |
| 27 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 brine | acl |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 enter | advmod |
| 29 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 scars | nmod:poss |
| 30 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 enter | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 unhealed | punct |
| 32 | unhealed | unheal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 scars | acl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 yet | case |
| 34 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 32 unhealed | advmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 die | punct |
| 36 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 39 die | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 die | nsubj |
| 38 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 die | aux |
| 39 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 unhealed | conj |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 sent | punct |
| 41 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 sent | cc |
| 42 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 43 sent | amod |
| 43 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 thought | parataxis |
| 44 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 food | nmod:poss |
| 45 | choicest | choice | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 food | amod |
| 46 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 sent | obj |
| 47 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 food | amod |
| 48 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 full | conj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 clothed | punct |
| 50 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 clothed | cc |
| 51 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 sent | conj |
| 52 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 wings | nmod:poss |
| 53 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 clothed | obj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 55 plumage | case |
| 55 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 clothed | obl |
| 56 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 clothed | conj |
| 57 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 soft | cc |
| 58 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 fine | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect · passive | God | bade ccomp | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look down | participle | on things = thing; benignly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on they=Theme | |||||
| 3 | brine | that | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | not enter | to-infinitive | things's scars | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme scar=Destination | |||||
| 5 | unheal | participle | things's scars not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | die | should | scars = scar | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 7 | send | past | scars's choicest food | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme | |||||
| 8 | clothe | past | scars's wings | with plumage | vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | ||||
| 9 | scar | things = thing | nom scar «state 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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