The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 126
Pleased not less To stand implored, he dallied with her suit Destined, and this he knew, to end in shame.
Who acts: soul, this · What happens: please, stand, implore, dally, destine, know · To what, where: suit, shame
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 (soul, this), 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 | Pleased | please | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 dallied | advcl |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 less | advmod |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 implored | advmod |
| 4 | To | to | PART | _ | 5 stand | mark |
| 5 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 less | advcl |
| 6 | implored | implore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pleased | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pleased | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 dallied | nsubj |
| 9 | dallied | dally | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 suit | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 suit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dallied | obl |
| 13 | Destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 suit | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 knew | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 knew | cc |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 knew | nsubj |
| 18 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 dallied | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 end | punct |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 end | mark |
| 21 | end | end | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 knew | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 shame | case |
| 23 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 end | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 dallied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | participle | soul not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | stand | to-infinitive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | implore | participle | soul not said here | less property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | dally | past | soul | with Rochad's suit | vn trifle-105.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with suit=Theme | ||||
| 5 | destine | participle | Rochad's suit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | know | past | this | soul nsubj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | end | to-infinitive | this not said here | shame | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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