The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 34
How, glorying in her loveliness, her sire Had sworn no chief should ever call her wife Who won her not by valour; how that youth Had scaled his rock and slain his guards and forth Led her by hand, a downward-looking bride, Majestic, unconsenting, undismayed, But likewise unreluctant.
Who acts: chief, wife · What happens: glory, swear, call, not win, scale, slain · To what, where: loveliness, sire, wife, Eimer, youth, guards · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (chief, wife), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 glorying | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 glorying | punct |
| 3 | glorying | glory | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 loveliness | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 loveliness | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loveliness | loveliness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 glorying | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 sworn | punct |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sire | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sworn | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 sworn | aux |
| 11 | sworn | swear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 glorying | parataxis |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 chief | det |
| 13 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | nsubj |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 call | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 call | advmod |
| 16 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 sworn | parataxis |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 call | obj |
| 19 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 won | nsubj |
| 20 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wife | acl:relcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 won | obj |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 won | advmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 valour | case |
| 24 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 won | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 scaled | punct |
| 26 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 scaled | advmod |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 youth | det |
| 28 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scaled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | Had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 scaled | aux |
| 30 | scaled | scale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 call | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 rock | nmod:poss |
| 32 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 scaled | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 slain | cc |
| 34 | slain | slain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 scaled | conj |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 guards | nmod:poss |
| 36 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 slain | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Led | cc |
| 38 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 39 Led | advmod |
| 39 | Led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 scaled | conj |
| 40 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 Led | obj |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 hand | case |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 Led | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 bride | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 bride | det |
| 45 | downward | downward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 looking | compound |
| 46 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 45 downward | punct |
| 47 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 48 bride | amod |
| 48 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hand | appos |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 Majestic | punct |
| 50 | Majestic | majestic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 bride | amod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 unconsenting | punct |
| 52 | unconsenting | unconsent | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 50 Majestic | advcl |
| 53 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 undismayed | punct |
| 54 | undismayed | undismayed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 unconsenting | conj |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 58 unreluctant | punct |
| 56 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 58 unreluctant | cc |
| 57 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 58 unreluctant | advmod |
| 58 | unreluctant | unreluctant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 sworn | conj |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 glorying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glory | gerund | Eimer's loveliness | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | swear | past · perfect · passive | Eimer's sire | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | call | should | no chief | Eimer's wife | ever | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient | |||
| 4 | not win | past | Eimer's wife | Eimer | by valour | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | scale | past · perfect · passive | that youth | youth's rock obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | slain | infinitive | youth's guards | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | lead | past | Eimer | by hand; forth property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by hand=Destination | ||||
| 8 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 9 | unconsent | gerund | 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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