The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 49

Then, with a brightening in her old, pale face, Her nurse resumed: ‘But we--the Gael--but we, The offspring are we of a lordlier race, The heirs of some diviner destiny!

Who acts: nurse, we · What happens: brighten, resume, be

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 (nurse, we), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 resumed	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Then	punct
3	with	with	SCONJ	_	11 face	mark
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 face	det
5	brightening	brighten	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 face	amod
6	in	in	ADP	_	11 face	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 face	nmod:poss
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 old	punct
10	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 face	amod
11	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resumed	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 face	punct
13	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 nurse	nmod:poss
14	nurse	nurse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resumed	nsubj
15	resumed	resume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 resumed	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 resumed	punct
18	But	but	CCONJ	_	22 Gael	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 Gael	nsubj
20	--	--	PUNCT	_	22 Gael	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Gael	det
22	Gael	Gael	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 resumed	conj
23	--	--	PUNCT	_	34 race	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 race	cc
25	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 race	nsubj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 offspring	punct
27	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 offspring	det
28	offspring	offspring	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 we	conj
29	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 race	cop
30	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 race	nsubj
31	of	of	ADP	_	34 race	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 race	det
33	lordlier	lordly	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 race	amod
34	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 resumed	parataxis
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 heirs	punct
36	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 heirs	det
37	heirs	heir	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 race	conj
38	of	of	ADP	_	41 destiny	case
39	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	41 destiny	det
40	diviner	divine	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	41 destiny	amod
41	destiny	destiny	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 heirs	nmod
42	!	!	PUNCT	_	15 resumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	brighten	gerund				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	resume	past	child's nurse	then	child's brightening old pale face advcl; the Gael we conj	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	is	present	we		of a lordlier race and the heirs of some diviner destiny; the heirs of some diviner destiny conj	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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 49