The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 33
And doubtless,’ thus ran on the careless elf, ‘Who hides in sport will show His face in love; Much seeking will not find Him.
Who acts: Much seeking · What happens: run, hide, show, not find · To what, where: face, elf
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 (Much seeking), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 2 doubtless | cc |
| 2 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doubtless | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 doubtless | punct |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 ran | advmod |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 doubtless | parataxis |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 elf | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 elf | det |
| 9 | careless | careless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 elf | amod |
| 10 | elf | elf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ran | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hides | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 hides | punct |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 hides | nsubj |
| 14 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ran | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 sport | case |
| 16 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obl |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 hides | parataxis |
| 19 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 show | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 find | punct |
| 24 | Much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 seeking | amod |
| 25 | seeking | seeking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 find | aux |
| 27 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 find | advmod |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 doubtless | parataxis |
| 29 | Him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 find | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 doubtless | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | on the careless elf; thus property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on elf=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | hide | present | Who nsubj | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | future | elf's face | in love; in sport | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent face=Patient in sport=Topic | ||||
| 4 | not find | future | Much seeking | elf | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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