The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 46
I would that sister were my sister too, Partaker of my heart, my hope, my life: I have no youthful friend!’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: be, have, hope · To what, where: sister, youthful 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 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 sister | aux |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 sister | det |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sister | cop |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sister | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 sister | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Partaker | punct |
| 10 | Partaker | partaker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 heart | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Partaker | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hope | punct |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 hope | nmod:poss |
| 16 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 life | punct |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sister | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sister | parataxis |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 friend | det |
| 24 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 friend | amod |
| 25 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sister | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | I | my sister and Partaker of my heart and my hope and my life | my nmod:poss; Partaker of my heart conj; my hope conj; my life conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | I | no youthful friend | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hope | my | nom hope «feeling 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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