The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 207

‘Ferdīa! dearer to my heart wert thou Than all beside if all were joined in one: Dear was thy clouded face, and darksome eye; Thy deep, sad voice; thy words so wise and few; Dear was thy silence: dear thy slow, grave ways, Not boastful like the Gael’s.’

Who acts: thy · What happens: join, cloud, be, word · To what, where: all, Dear clouded face, wise silence

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ferdīa	punct
2	Ferdīa	Ferdīa	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wert	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Ferdīa	punct
4	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 wert	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 heart	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 heart	nmod:poss
7	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wert	obl
8	wert	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	8 wert	obj
10	Than	than	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 wert	obl
12	beside	beside	ADP	_	16 joined	mark
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 joined	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 joined	nsubj:pass
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 joined	aux:pass
16	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wert	advcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 joined	obl
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	24 face	punct
20	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 face	cop
22	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 face	nmod:poss
23	clouded	cloud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 face	amod
24	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wert	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 eye	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 eye	cc
27	darksome	darksome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 eye	amod
28	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 face	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 deep	punct
30	Thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	31 deep	nmod:poss
31	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 face	amod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 voice	punct
33	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 voice	amod
34	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 deep	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 words	punct
36	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	37 words	nmod:poss
37	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 face	conj
38	so	so	ADV	_	39 wise	advmod
39	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 silence	amod
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 few	cc
41	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wise	conj
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 Dear	punct
43	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 wise	conj
44	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 silence	cop
45	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 silence	nmod:poss
46	silence	silence	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 words	nmod
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	53 ways	punct
48	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ways	amod
49	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	53 ways	nmod:poss
50	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ways	amod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 slow	punct
52	grave	grave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ways	amod
53	ways	way	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 silence	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 boastful	punct
55	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 boastful	advmod
56	boastful	boastful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 ways	amod
57	like	like	ADP	_	59 Gael	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Gael	det
59	Gael	Gael	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 boastful	obl
60	’s	's	PART	_	59 Gael	case
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 wert	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 wert	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	past · passive		all	in one	vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	cloud	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is a	past		thy Dear clouded face and darksome eye and thy words	thy nmod:poss; darksome eye conj; thy words conj	tree rules
4	is a	past		thy wise silence	thy dear slow grave ways nmod; thy nmod:poss	tree rules
6	word		thy			nom word «communication 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 13, sentence 207