The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 76
Sadness is celibate and eremite: His converse long had been with injuries past, In Scatha’s isle with frowning crags and clouds-- Aye, but with one beside, a friend, his nearest, Who loved that maid, and sued her grace.
Who acts: converse long, isle · What happens: be, frown, love, sue · To what, where: Sadness celibate, crags, maid, grace
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 (converse long, isle), 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 | Sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celibate | compound |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 celibate | cop |
| 3 | celibate | celibate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 eremite | cc |
| 5 | eremite | eremite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 celibate | conj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 injuries | punct |
| 7 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 long | nmod:poss |
| 8 | converse | converse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 long | amod |
| 9 | long | long | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 injuries | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 injuries | aux |
| 11 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 injuries | cop |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 injuries | case |
| 13 | injuries | injury | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 celibate | appos |
| 14 | past | past | ADV | _ | 13 injuries | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 isle | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 19 isle | case |
| 17 | Scatha | Scatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 isle | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 Scatha | case |
| 19 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 injuries | conj |
| 20 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 21 frowning | mark |
| 21 | frowning | frown | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 isle | acl |
| 22 | crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 frowning | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 clouds | cc |
| 24 | clouds | cloud | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 crags | conj |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 Aye | punct |
| 26 | Aye | aye | INTJ | _ | 37 nearest | discourse |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 nearest | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 37 nearest | cc |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 one | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 nearest | nsubj |
| 31 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 30 one | fixed |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 friend | punct |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 friend | det |
| 34 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 one | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 nearest | punct |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 nearest | nmod:poss |
| 37 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 injuries | amod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 loved | punct |
| 39 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 loved | nsubj |
| 40 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 nearest | parataxis |
| 41 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 maid | det |
| 42 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 loved | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 sued | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 sued | cc |
| 45 | sued | sue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 loved | conj |
| 46 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 grace | nmod:poss |
| 47 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 sued | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 celibate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Sadness celibate and eremite | eremite conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | cliff's converse long | with injuries and Scatha's isle; Scatha's isle conj; past property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | frown | gerund | Scatha's isle not said here | crags and clouds | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crag=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | past | that maid | Who nsubj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | sue | past | maid's grace | 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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