The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 85

Meave bit her lip: But wildly sang the Witch; ‘Faythleen am I, Thy People’s patron mid the Powers unseen: Beware that youth invisible for speed, Who hears that whisper none beside can hear, Sees what none other sees; before whose eye The wild beast cowers, subdued!

Who acts: Meave, patron, that, none, wild beast · What happens: bite, sing, be, mi, beware, hear · To what, where: lip, Witch, I, youth, none · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Meave, patron, that, none), 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	Meave	Meave	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nsubj
2	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 lip	nmod:poss
4	lip	lip	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	8 sang	punct
6	But	but	CCONJ	_	8 sang	cc
7	wildly	wildly	ADV	_	8 sang	advmod
8	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bit	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Witch	det
10	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sang	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 Faythleen	punct
12	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Faythleen	punct
13	Faythleen	Faythleen	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 bit	parataxis
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 I	cop
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 Faythleen	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 mid	punct
17	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	18 People	nmod:poss
18	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 patron	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 People	case
20	patron	patron	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 mid	nsubj
21	mid	mi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 I	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Powers	det
23	Powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 unseen	nsubj
24	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 mid	ccomp
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	26 Beware	punct
26	Beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 mid	conj
27	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 youth	det
28	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 Beware	obj
29	invisible	invisible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 Beware	xcomp
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 speed	case
31	speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 hears	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 hears	punct
33	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 hears	nsubj
34	hears	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 Beware	parataxis
35	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 whisper	nsubj
36	whisper	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hears	ccomp
37	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	36 whisper	obj
38	beside	beside	ADP	_	40 hear	mark
39	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 hear	aux
40	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 whisper	advcl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Sees	punct
42	Sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hears	conj
43	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	46 sees	obj
44	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	46 sees	nsubj
45	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 none	amod
46	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 Sees	ccomp
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 cowers	punct
48	before	before	ADP	_	50 eye	case
49	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	50 eye	nmod:poss
50	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 cowers	obl
51	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 beast	det
52	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 beast	amod
53	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 cowers	nsubj
54	cowers	cower	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 hears	conj
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 subdued	punct
56	subdued	subdue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	54 cowers	xcomp
57	!	!	PUNCT	_	13 Faythleen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	Meave	e’er's lip		Faythleen parataxis	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient
2	sing speech: express	past	Meave not said here	the Witch		wildly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location witch=Theme
3	is a	present	Meave not said here	I			tree rules
4	mi	past	Thy People's patron				tree rules
5	beware	infinitive	Thy People's patron not said here	that youth		invisible property	tree rules
6	hear	present				for speed; Who nsubj	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	whisper speech: assert	present	that	none			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent none=Topic
8	hear	can	that not said here				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
9	see	present					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10	see	present	none			what obj	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus
11	cower	present	the wild beast		before eye		tree rules
12	subdue	participle	the wild beast not said here				vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 85