The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 65

If so, ’tis likely she resembles me: They chide me oft; “No Gaelic face is thine, Dark-eyed, dark-browed, a rebel since its birth!”’

Who acts: bride, methinks, Gaelic face · What happens: resemble, chide, be, brow · To what, where: tis, me, rebel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (bride, methinks, Gaelic face), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	2 so	mark
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 resembles	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tis	punct
4	’	'	CCONJ	_	5 tis	cc
5	tis	tis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 resembles	obl
6	likely	likely	ADV	_	8 resembles	advmod
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 resembles	nsubj
8	resembles	resemble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 resembles	obj
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 chide	punct
11	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 chide	nsubj
12	chide	chide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 resembles	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 chide	obj
14	oft	oft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 chide	xcomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 eyed	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 eyed	punct
17	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	19 face	det
18	Gaelic	gaelic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 face	amod
19	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 eyed	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 eyed	cop
21	thine	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 eyed	nmod:poss
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 eyed	punct
23	Dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 eyed	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 Dark	punct
25	eyed	eyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 resembles	parataxis
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 browed	punct
27	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 browed	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 dark	punct
29	browed	brow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 eyed	advcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 rebel	punct
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 rebel	det
32	rebel	rebel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 browed	obj
33	since	since	ADP	_	35 birth	case
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 birth	nmod:poss
35	birth	birth	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 rebel	nmod
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 rebel	punct
37	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 browed	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	25 eyed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	resemble	present	bride	tis		me obj; likely property	tree rules
2	chide	present	methinks = methink	me		oft property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	is in a quote	present	no Gaelic face			thine nmod:poss; eyed property	tree rules
4	brow in a quote	participle	no Gaelic face not said here	a rebel	since face's birth		tree rules

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 65

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 65