The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 172
That morning he had wed A maid, the loveliest in his mother’s court, And yearned to prove his valour in her eyes.
Who acts: Orloff · What happens: w, yearn, prove · To what, where: maid, valour, eyes
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Orloff), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 morning | det |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loveliest | nsubj |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wed | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wed | aux |
| 5 | wed | w | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 morning | acl:relcl |
| 6 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 maid | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 loveliest | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 loveliest | det |
| 10 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 court | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 mother | nmod:poss |
| 13 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 court | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 mother | case |
| 15 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loveliest | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 yearned | punct |
| 17 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 yearned | cc |
| 18 | yearned | yearn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 loveliest | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 prove | mark |
| 20 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 yearned | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 valour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 prove | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prove | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 loveliest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | w | past · perfect | Orloff | a maid | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | yearn | past | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | prove not said to happen | to-infinitive | Orloff's valour | mother's eyes | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Theme |
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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