The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 1
He spake: ‘She shall not die: this babe I take, My ward, until her destinies be known: An isle tower-girt is mine in yonder lake: There shall she live; and there shall live alone: By none that fatal beauty shall be seen: Full-grown the maid perchance may be my queen.’
Who acts: She, I, isle tower girt, none · What happens: not die, take, know, be, live, see · To what, where: babe, destinies, mine, lake, fatal beauty, maid perchance
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (She, I, isle tower girt, none), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 5 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 die | nsubj |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 die | advmod |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | appos |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 babe | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 babe | det |
| 11 | babe | babe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obl |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 babe | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ward | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 ward | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ward | ward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 babe | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 known | punct |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 known | mark |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 destinies | nmod:poss |
| 20 | destinies | destiny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 known | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 known | aux:pass |
| 22 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 die | advcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 30 mine | punct |
| 24 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 girt | det |
| 25 | isle | isle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 girt | compound |
| 26 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 girt | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 tower | punct |
| 28 | girt | girt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mine | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 mine | cop |
| 30 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 spake | conj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 lake | case |
| 32 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 33 lake | advmod |
| 33 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 mine | nmod |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 live | punct |
| 35 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 38 live | expl |
| 36 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 live | aux |
| 37 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 live | nsubj |
| 38 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 43 live | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 live | cc |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 43 live | advmod |
| 42 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 live | aux |
| 43 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 38 live | parataxis |
| 44 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 43 live | advmod |
| 45 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 none | punct |
| 46 | By | by | ADP | _ | 47 none | case |
| 47 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 64 queen | nsubj |
| 48 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 53 seen | mark |
| 49 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 beauty | amod |
| 50 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 51 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 seen | aux |
| 52 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 53 seen | aux:pass |
| 53 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 none | acl |
| 54 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 57 grown | punct |
| 55 | Full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 grown | amod |
| 56 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 55 Full | punct |
| 57 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 none | acl |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 perchance | det |
| 59 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 60 perchance | compound |
| 60 | perchance | perchance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 57 grown | obj |
| 61 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 64 queen | aux |
| 62 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 64 queen | cop |
| 63 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 64 queen | nmod:poss |
| 64 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 live | parataxis |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
| 66 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not die | shall | She | this babe and My ward | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | take | present | I | this babe and My ward not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent babe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | know | infinitive · passive | her destinies | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | a isle tower girt | mine | lake | tree rules | |||
| 5 | live | shall | she | there | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | shall | there | alone property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | see | shall · passive | fatal beauty | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | grow | participle | the maid perchance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location perchance=Theme | |||||
| 9 | is a | may | none | my queen | my nmod:poss | 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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