The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 103
Without an hour’s misgiving or remorse In beauty’s pride not less than patriot zeal-- Wilier she was than Meave, and haughtier far-- Champion on champion she had sent to doom Beside that fatal Ford.
Who acts: trial, champion, hour, beauty · What happens: be, send, doom, misgive, pride · To what, where: champion, fatal Ford
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trial, champion, hour, beauty), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 5 misgiving | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 hour | det |
| 3 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 misgiving | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 hour | case |
| 5 | misgiving | misgiving | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 remorse | cc |
| 7 | remorse | remorse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 misgiving | conj |
| 8 | In | in | ADP | _ | 11 pride | case |
| 9 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pride | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 beauty | case |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remorse | nmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 less | advmod |
| 13 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 pride | amod |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 zeal | case |
| 15 | patriot | patriot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 zeal | compound |
| 16 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 less | obl |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 18 Wilier | punct |
| 18 | Wilier | wily | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 zeal | conj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 Meave | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 Meave | cop |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 Meave | case |
| 22 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 zeal | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 haughtier | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 haughtier | cc |
| 25 | haughtier | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 misgiving | conj |
| 26 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 haughtier | advmod |
| 27 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 28 Champion | punct |
| 28 | Champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 misgiving | conj |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 champion | case |
| 30 | champion | champion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Champion | nmod |
| 31 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 sent | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 sent | aux |
| 33 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 champion | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 doom | mark |
| 35 | doom | doom | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 sent | xcomp |
| 36 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 39 Ford | case |
| 37 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 Ford | nsubj |
| 38 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Ford | amod |
| 39 | Ford | Ford | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 doom | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 misgiving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | trial | than Meave | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | send | past · perfect | trial | champion not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | doom | to-infinitive | champion not said here | fatal Ford that | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | misgive | a hour | nom misgiving «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | pride | beauty | nom pride «feeling 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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