The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 66
As in a dream The maiden watched it long: at last she spake, Whilst o’er her grave face ran a laughing gleam, ‘These be Love’s colours, black and red, and white;-- Yet love we know, is nought, when judged aright!
Who acts: maiden, These, we · What happens: watch, run, laugh, be, know, judge · To what, where: dream, laughing gleam, colours, love, nought
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 (maiden, These, 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 dream | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dream | det |
| 4 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 5 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | nsubj |
| 7 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 watched | obj |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 watched | xcomp |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 spake | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 last | case |
| 12 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spake | amod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 spake | compound |
| 14 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 watched | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ran | punct |
| 16 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 21 ran | mark |
| 17 | o’er | o'er | ADP | _ | 20 face | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 face | nmod:poss |
| 19 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 face | amod |
| 20 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obl |
| 21 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 watched | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 gleam | det |
| 23 | laughing | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 gleam | amod |
| 24 | gleam | gleam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ran | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 colours | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 31 colours | punct |
| 27 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 colours | nsubj |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 colours | cop |
| 29 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 colours | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 Love | case |
| 31 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 ran | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 black | punct |
| 33 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 colours | amod |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 red | cc |
| 35 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 black | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 white | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 white | cc |
| 38 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 watched | conj |
| 39 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
| 40 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 nought | punct |
| 41 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 47 nought | cc |
| 42 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 nought | compound |
| 43 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 know | nsubj |
| 44 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 love | acl:relcl |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 love | punct |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 nought | cop |
| 47 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 7 watched | conj |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 judged | punct |
| 49 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 50 judged | advmod |
| 50 | judged | judge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 47 nought | acl |
| 51 | aright | aright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 judged | xcomp |
| 52 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | past | the maiden | dream | as a dream; last she spake obl; long property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent it=Theme as dream=Value | |||
| 2 | run | past | the maiden not said here | a laughing gleam | o'er breath's grave face | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme gleam=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | laugh | gerund | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | These | Love's colours | Love nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | present | we | love not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer love=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | present | the maiden not said here | nought | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | judge | participle | aright property | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent |
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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