The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 112
She had never loved: Self-love, sole regent of the unloving heart, Had barred it ’gainst all other tenderer loves: In vain the island chiefs had wooed and sued: She spurned them each and all.
Who acts: Vanity, other tenderer · What happens: not love, unlov, bar, love, woo, sue · To what, where: Self love, love, island chiefs, others
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 (Vanity, other tenderer), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 loved | advmod |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 love | punct |
| 6 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Self | punct |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 regent | punct |
| 10 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 regent | amod |
| 11 | regent | regent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 love | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 14 | unloving | unlov | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 heart | amod |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 regent | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 barred | punct |
| 17 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 barred | aux |
| 18 | barred | bar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 loved | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 barred | obj |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 barred | punct |
| 21 | gainst | gain | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 barred | obl:agent |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 tenderer | det |
| 23 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tenderer | amod |
| 24 | tenderer | tenderer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 loves | nsubj |
| 25 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 gainst | acl:relcl |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 wooed | punct |
| 27 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 33 wooed | mark |
| 28 | vain | vain | SCONJ | _ | 33 wooed | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 chiefs | det |
| 30 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 chiefs | compound |
| 31 | chiefs | chief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 wooed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wooed | aux |
| 33 | wooed | woo | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 loved | conj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 sued | cc |
| 35 | sued | sue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 wooed | conj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 spurned | punct |
| 37 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 spurned | nsubj |
| 38 | spurned | spurn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loved | conj |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 spurned | obj |
| 40 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 38 spurned | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 all | cc |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 each | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not love | past · perfect | Vanity | Self love and sole regent of the unloving heart | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | unlov | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | bar | past · perfect | Vanity not said here | love | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | love | present | all other tenderer | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | woo | past · perfect · passive | the island chiefs | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | sue | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | spurn | past | Vanity | others = other | 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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