The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 104
Be strong! a trial waits thee heavier yet-- No man is friend of mine till trial-proved.’
Who acts: strong trial, man · What happens: be, wait, prove · To what, where: thee, friend
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 (strong trial, man), 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 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 strong | cop |
| 2 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trial | amod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 strong | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 trial | det |
| 5 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waits | nsubj |
| 6 | waits | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 waits | obj |
| 8 | heavier | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 waits | xcomp |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 8 heavier | advmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 friend | punct |
| 11 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 man | det |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 friend | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 friend | cop |
| 14 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 waits | advcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 mine | case |
| 16 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 friend | nmod |
| 17 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 20 proved | mark |
| 18 | trial | trial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proved | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 trial | punct |
| 20 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 friend | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 waits | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 waits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | strong property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | wait | present | a strong trial | thee | heavy property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | present | no man | friend | of mine | tree rules | |||
| 4 | prove | participle | no man not said here | trial compound | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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