The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 78
And she, ‘I see a kingdom’s destinies; And they are like a countenance dashed with blood: Faythleen am I, the Witch.’
Who acts: Queen, destinies · What happens: see, be, dash · To what, where: destinies, countenance, I
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 (Queen, destinies), 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 | _ | 6 see | cc |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 she | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 kingdom | det |
| 8 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destinies | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 kingdom | case |
| 10 | destinies | destiny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 see | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 countenance | punct |
| 12 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 countenance | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 countenance | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 countenance | cop |
| 15 | like | like | ADP | _ | 17 countenance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 countenance | det |
| 17 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 see | parataxis |
| 18 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 countenance | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 blood | case |
| 20 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dashed | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Faythleen | punct |
| 22 | Faythleen | Faythleen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 countenance | appos |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 I | cop |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Faythleen | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Witch | punct |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Witch | det |
| 27 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Faythleen | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 Faythleen | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 countenance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | Queen | a kingdom's destinies | I nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer destiny=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | present | destinies = destiny | like a countenance; Faythleen appos | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | dash | participle | a countenance not said here | with blood | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with blood=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | is a | present | destinies = destiny not said here | I | 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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