The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 87

At last he spake, ‘This day a woe to man, And yet the crown of woman’s kind, is born: This day is sent a blessing and a ban; She shall be black as night, and white as morn; And lo, upon her cheek I see such red As stains great warriors on the war-field dead.

Who acts: Infant, I · What happens: bear, send, be, see, crown · To what, where: last spake, blessing, red great warriors, war field, kind

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Infant, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 spake	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 spake	amod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 spake	nsubj
4	spake	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 born	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spake	punct
6	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 woe	punct
7	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woe	compound
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 woe	det
10	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 spake	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 man	case
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woe	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 crown	punct
14	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 crown	cc
15	yet	yet	ADV	_	17 crown	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 crown	det
17	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 woe	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 kind	case
19	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 kind	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 woman	case
21	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crown	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 spake	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 born	aux:pass
24	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 sent	punct
26	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 day	det
27	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obl:unmarked
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 sent	aux:pass
29	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 born	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 blessing	det
31	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sent	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 ban	cc
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 ban	det
34	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 blessing	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 black	punct
36	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 black	nsubj
37	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 black	aux
38	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 black	cop
39	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 sent	parataxis
40	as	as	ADP	_	41 night	case
41	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 black	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 white	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 white	cc
44	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 black	conj
45	as	as	ADP	_	46 morn	case
46	morn	morn	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 white	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 see	punct
48	And	and	CCONJ	_	55 see	cc
49	lo	lo	INTJ	_	55 see	discourse
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 lo	punct
51	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 cheek	case
52	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 cheek	nmod:poss
53	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 see	obl
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 see	nsubj
55	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 born	conj
56	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 red	amod
57	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 warriors	amod
58	As	as	ADP	_	59 stains	case
59	stains	stain	NOUN	Number=Plur	57 red	obl
60	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 warriors	amod
61	warriors	warrior	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 see	obj
62	on	on	ADP	_	66 field	case
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	66 field	det
64	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	66 field	compound
65	-	-	PUNCT	_	64 war	punct
66	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 see	obl
67	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 field	amod
68	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 born	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	present · passive			last spake O’er and a day woe to man and the crown of woman's kind			vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
2	send	present · passive		a blessing and a ban		day		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: blessing=Theme
3	is	shall	Infant			night	black property	tree rules
4	be		Infant not said here				as morn	tree rules
5	see	present	I	red great warriors	the war field		upon Infant's cheek	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer warrior=Stimulus
6	crown			woman's kind				nom crown «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 87