The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 127

Nature, even in periods branded as ‘barbaric,’ has qualities that indicate a sympathy with the divine; for it has ardent affections, a simple refinement, singleness of aim, a marvellous self-sacrifice, and those unblunted sensibilities, both of love and reverence, without which the loftiest revealed truths cease to have a meaning.

Who acts: Nature, qualities, loftiest revealed truths · What happens: brand, have, indicate, reveal, cease · To what, where: periods, qualities, sympathy, ardent affections, meaning

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nature, qualities, loftiest revealed truths), 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	Nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 has	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 periods	punct
3	even	even	ADV	_	5 periods	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 periods	case
5	periods	period	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Nature	appos
6	branded	brand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 periods	acl
7	as	as	ADP	_	9 barbaric	case
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 barbaric	punct
9	barbaric	barbaric	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 branded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nature	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct
12	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	qualities	quality	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 has	obj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 indicate	nsubj
15	indicate	indicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 qualities	acl:relcl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sympathy	det
17	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 indicate	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 divine	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 divine	det
20	divine	divine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 indicate	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 has	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 has	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 has	nsubj
24	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 has	parataxis
25	ardent	ardent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 affections	amod
26	affections	affection	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 has	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 refinement	punct
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 refinement	det
29	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 refinement	amod
30	refinement	refinement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 affections	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 singleness	punct
32	singleness	singleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 refinement	conj
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 aim	case
34	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 singleness	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 sacrifice	punct
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 sacrifice	det
37	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 sacrifice	amod
38	self	self	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 sacrifice	compound
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 self	punct
40	sacrifice	sacrifice	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 refinement	conj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 sensibilities	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 sensibilities	cc
43	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	45 sensibilities	det
44	unblunted	unblunted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 sensibilities	amod
45	sensibilities	sensibility	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 has	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 love	punct
47	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	49 love	det
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 love	case
49	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 sensibilities	appos
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 reverence	cc
51	reverence	reverence	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 love	conj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 cease	punct
53	without	without	ADP	_	54 which	case
54	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	59 cease	obl
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 truths	det
56	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	58 truths	amod
57	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	58 truths	amod
58	truths	truth	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 cease	nsubj
59	cease	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 sensibilities	acl:relcl
60	to	to	PART	_	61 have	mark
61	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	59 cease	xcomp
62	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	63 meaning	det
63	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 have	obj
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 has	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	brand	participle		periods not said here	as barbaric	vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	Nature	qualities		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quality=Patient
3	indicate	present	qualities	a sympathy	with the divine	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot sympathy=Topic
4	have	present	nature	ardent affections a simple refinement and singleness of aim and a marvellous self sacrifice	that unblunted sensibilities conj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Patient
5	reveal	participle				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	cease	present	the loftiest revealed truths		without that unblunted sensibilities	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	have	to-infinitive	the loftiest revealed truths not said here	a meaning		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 127