The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 139
One day I knew you not: I know you now: Your spells are null when once their trick is learned: Likewise your face has lost its earlier charm.
Who acts: I, spells, Your · What happens: not know, know, be, learn, likewise, lose · To what, where: you, trick, face
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 (I, spells, Your), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 knew | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 knew | advmod |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 know | nsubj |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 knew | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 know | obj |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 know | advmod |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 null | punct |
| 13 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 spells | nmod:poss |
| 14 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 null | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 null | cop |
| 16 | null | null | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 know | conj |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 learned | advmod |
| 18 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 22 learned | mark |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 trick | nmod:poss |
| 20 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 learned | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 learned | aux:pass |
| 22 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 null | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 Likewise | punct |
| 24 | Likewise | likewise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 learned | xcomp |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 face | nmod:poss |
| 26 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lost | aux |
| 28 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 Likewise | ccomp |
| 29 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 charm | nmod:poss |
| 30 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 charm | amod |
| 31 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lost | obj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past | I | you | day | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | know | present | I | you | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | is | present | Your spells | null property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | learn | present · passive | spells's trick | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | likewise | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | lose | present · perfect · passive | your face | face's earlier charm obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | spell | Your | nom spell «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | trick | spells = spell | nom trick «act 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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