The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 81
‘Whilome our four small cots of pearl and gold Lay, side by side, before our father’s bed, And silken foldings kept us from the cold: But now on restless waves our couch is spread; And now our bed-clothes are the white sea-foam: And now by night the sea-rock is our home.’
Who acts: silken foldings, bed clothes, sea rock · What happens: keep, spread, be · To what, where: us, cold, couch, restless waves, white sea foam, home
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 (silken foldings, bed clothes, sea rock), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Whilome | punct |
| 2 | Whilome | Whilome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | nsubj |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 cots | nmod:poss |
| 4 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 cots | nummod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cots | amod |
| 6 | cots | cot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 pearl | case |
| 8 | pearl | pearl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gold | cc |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pearl | conj |
| 11 | Lay | Lay | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 gold | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 side | punct |
| 13 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 side | case |
| 15 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 side | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bed | punct |
| 17 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 bed | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bed | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 father | case |
| 21 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 kept | punct |
| 23 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kept | cc |
| 24 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 foldings | amod |
| 25 | foldings | folding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 kept | nsubj |
| 26 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 cots | parataxis |
| 27 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 kept | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 cold | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cold | det |
| 30 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 kept | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 spread | punct |
| 32 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 spread | cc |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 spread | advmod |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 waves | case |
| 35 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 waves | amod |
| 36 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 spread | obl |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 couch | nmod:poss |
| 38 | couch | couch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 spread | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 spread | aux:pass |
| 40 | spread | spread | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 cots | conj |
| 41 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 53 foam | punct |
| 42 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 foam | cc |
| 43 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 53 foam | advmod |
| 44 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 45 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 clothes | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 bed | punct |
| 47 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 53 foam | nsubj |
| 48 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 53 foam | cop |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 foam | det |
| 50 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 foam | amod |
| 51 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 foam | compound |
| 52 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 51 sea | punct |
| 53 | foam | foam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | conj |
| 54 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 65 home | punct |
| 55 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 65 home | cc |
| 56 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 65 home | advmod |
| 57 | by | by | ADP | _ | 58 night | case |
| 58 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 home | obl |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 62 rock | det |
| 60 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 rock | compound |
| 61 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 60 sea | punct |
| 62 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 home | nsubj |
| 63 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 65 home | cop |
| 64 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 65 home | nmod:poss |
| 65 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cots | conj |
| 66 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cots | punct |
| 67 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 cots | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | silken foldings | us | the cold | vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer we=Beneficiary from cold=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | spread | present · passive | our couch | restless waves | now | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on wave=Destination | |||
| 3 | is a | present | our bed clothes | the white sea foam | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | present | the sea rock | our home | now; night | our nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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