The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 67
‘These be Love’s colours, white and black, and red:-- Some little foolish maid, to love inclined, Might say: “Though all should love me none shall wed Until in one dear face those three I find; Not raven locks alone, or front of snow, But on the heroic cheek the battle’s glow!”’
Who acts: These, Some, all, none, three, battle · What happens: be, maid, love, say, wed, find · To what, where: colours, me, Until, one dear face · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (These, Some, all, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 colours | punct |
| 2 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 colours | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 colours | cop |
| 4 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 colours | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Love | case |
| 6 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 white | punct |
| 8 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 colours | amod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 black | cc |
| 10 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 white | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 red | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 red | cc |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 white | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 maid | punct |
| 15 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 maid | punct |
| 16 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 maid | nsubj |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maid | amod |
| 18 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 maid | amod |
| 19 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 colours | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 love | mark |
| 22 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 maid | parataxis |
| 23 | inclined | inclined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 love | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 say | punct |
| 25 | Might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 say | aux |
| 26 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 love | conj |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 love | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 love | punct |
| 29 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 30 all | mark |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 love | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 love | aux |
| 32 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 say | ccomp |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 love | obj |
| 34 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 36 wed | nsubj |
| 35 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 wed | aux |
| 36 | wed | wed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 love | conj |
| 37 | Until | Until | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 wed | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 face | case |
| 39 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 face | nummod |
| 40 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 face | amod |
| 41 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 wed | obl |
| 42 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 43 three | det |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 find | nsubj |
| 44 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 find | nsubj |
| 45 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 wed | parataxis |
| 46 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 49 locks | punct |
| 47 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 49 locks | advmod |
| 48 | raven | raven | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 locks | amod |
| 49 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 love | obl |
| 50 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 49 locks | advmod |
| 51 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 front | punct |
| 52 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 53 front | cc |
| 53 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 love | obl |
| 54 | of | of | ADP | _ | 55 snow | case |
| 55 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 front | nmod |
| 56 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 65 glow | punct |
| 57 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 65 glow | cc |
| 58 | on | on | ADP | _ | 61 cheek | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 61 cheek | det |
| 60 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 61 cheek | amod |
| 61 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 glow | compound |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 battle | det |
| 63 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 glow | nmod:poss |
| 64 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 63 battle | case |
| 65 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | parataxis |
| 66 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 65 glow | punct |
| 67 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 65 glow | punct |
| 68 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | These | Love's colours and little foolish maid | Love nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | maid | Some | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | love | to-infinitive | the battle's cheek glow parataxis; inclined property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | say speech: express | might | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 5 | love in a quote | should | all | me | raven locks obl; front of snow obl | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | wed in a quote | shall | none | Until | one dear face | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent until=Patient | |||
| 7 | find in a quote | present | that three | I nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | glow in a quote | the battle | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=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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