The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 19
It may be That dread one will relent, pitying in her Great Uladh’s self despoiled of robe and crown, Her raiment bonds and shame.’
Who acts: sole, one, Maid · What happens: be, relent, pity, despoil, bond · To what, where: raiment bonds, Great self
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 (sole, one, Maid), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dread | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 dread | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dread | cop |
| 4 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 dread | nsubj |
| 5 | dread | drea | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 relent | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 relent | aux |
| 8 | relent | relent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 dread | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pitying | punct |
| 10 | pitying | pity | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 relent | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 self | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 self | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 self | amod |
| 14 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 self | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Uladh | case |
| 16 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pitying | obl |
| 17 | despoiled | despoil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 self | acl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 robe | case |
| 19 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 despoiled | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 crown | cc |
| 21 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 robe | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bonds | punct |
| 23 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 bonds | nmod:poss |
| 24 | raiment | raiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bonds | compound |
| 25 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 relent | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 shame | cc |
| 27 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bonds | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 relent | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 relent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | sole | That nsubj; drea property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relent | future | one | Maid's raiment bonds and shame | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pity | gerund | one not said here | Maid's Great self | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | despoil | participle | Maid's Great self not said here | of robe and crown | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of robe=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bond | Maid | nom bond «phenomenon transitive»: 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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