The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 102
She spake: ‘I hated thee, since less in me thy trust Than in great Virtue’s aid.
Who acts: I, thy · What happens: hate, trust · To what, where: thee, She spake
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | compound |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hated | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 hated | nsubj |
| 6 | hated | hate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 spake | acl:relcl |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 hated | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 less | punct |
| 9 | since | since | ADP | _ | 10 less | case |
| 10 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 hated | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 less | obl |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 trust | nmod:poss |
| 14 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 less | obl |
| 15 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 trust | appos |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 aid | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Virtue | amod |
| 18 | Virtue | Virtue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 aid | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Virtue | case |
| 20 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Than | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hate | past | I | thee | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | trust | thy | nom trust «possession intransitive»: poss=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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