The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 20

Of Eman’s maids But one, the best and purest gave consent: Alone she stood at parting of the ways: While near and nearer yet that war-car drew Wide-eyed she stood, death-pale: it stopp’d: she spake; Eman, thy Mother, stands a widow now: And many a famished babe that wrought no ill Lies mid her ruins wailing.”

Who acts: one, Maid, war car, Wide eyed, car, Eman · What happens: give, stand, draw, have, famish, wrought · To what, where: consent, parting, she spake, widow, ill Lies, ruins

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 (one, Maid, war car, Wide eyed), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 maids	case
2	Eman	Eman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 maids	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Eman	case
4	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 gave	obl
5	But	but	CCONJ	_	12 gave	cc
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 gave	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 best	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 best	det
9	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 one	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 purest	cc
11	purest	pure	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 best	conj
12	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 gave	obj
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 stood	punct
15	Alone	alone	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stood	nsubj
17	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 parting	case
19	parting	parting	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stood	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 ways	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ways	det
22	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 parting	nmod
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 near	punct
24	While	while	SCONJ	_	25 near	mark
25	near	near	ADV	_	17 stood	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 nearer	cc
27	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 near	conj
28	yet	yet	ADV	_	33 drew	advmod
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 drew	mark
30	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 car	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 war	punct
32	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 drew	nsubj
33	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 stood	advcl
34	Wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 eyed	amod
35	-	-	PUNCT	_	34 Wide	punct
36	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stood	nsubj
37	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 stood	nsubj
38	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 drew	ccomp
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 pale	punct
40	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 pale	compound
41	-	-	PUNCT	_	40 death	punct
42	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 stood	ccomp
43	:	:	PUNCT	_	46 ’d	punct
44	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 ’d	nsubj
45	stopp	stopp	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ’d	nsubj
46	’d	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 stood	conj
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	49 spake	punct
48	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 spake	compound
49	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 ’d	obj
50	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 stands	punct
51	Eman	Eman	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 stands	nsubj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 Mother	punct
53	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	54 Mother	nmod:poss
54	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 Eman	appos
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 Eman	punct
56	stands	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 widow	det
58	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 stands	obj
59	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	56 stands	advmod
60	:	:	PUNCT	_	71 mid	punct
61	And	and	CCONJ	_	71 mid	cc
62	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 mid	nsubj
63	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	65 babe	det
64	famished	famish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	65 babe	amod
65	babe	babe	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 mid	nsubj
66	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	67 wrought	nsubj
67	wrought	wrought	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 babe	acl:relcl
68	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	70 Lies	det
69	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	70 Lies	amod
70	Lies	Lie	PROPN	Number=Plur	67 wrought	obj
71	mid	mi	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 gave	conj
72	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	73 ruins	nmod:poss
73	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	71 mid	obj
74	wailing	wail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	71 mid	advcl
75	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct
76	”	"	PUNCT	_	12 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	one the best	consent			of Eman's maids	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme
2	stand	past	Maid		parting of the ways		alone, near property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at parting=Location
3	draw	past	war car			yet		tree rules
4	stand	past	Wide eyed				Maid nsubj	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	car	she spake			stopp nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent speak=Patient
6	stand	present	Eman	a widow		now		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer widow=Stimulus
7	famish	participle						tree rules
8	wrought	past	a famished babe	no ill Lies				tree rules
9	mi	past	many	Maid's ruins			a famished babe nsubj	tree rules
10	wail	gerund	many not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
11	part		the ways					nom parting «act intransitive»: of=agent
12	ruin		Maid					nom ruin «state 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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 20