The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 69

For Naisi’s front is white, his tresses dark; And still of him men say; “On Naisi’s cheek Not roses, but red dawns of battles break!”’

Who acts: tresses, men, red dawns · What happens: be, say, break · To what, where: cheek · 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 (tresses, men, red dawns), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 front	case
2	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 front	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 Naisi	case
4	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 white	obl
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 white	cop
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dark	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 tresses	nmod:poss
9	tresses	tress	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dark	nsubj
10	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 white	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
12	And	and	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
13	still	still	ADV	_	17 say	advmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 still	obl
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 white	parataxis
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
20	On	on	ADP	_	23 cheek	case
21	Naisi	Naisi	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 cheek	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Naisi	case
23	cheek	cheek	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 break	obl
24	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 roses	advmod
25	roses	rose	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 cheek	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 break	cc
28	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 dawns	amod
29	dawns	dawn	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 break	nsubj
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 battles	case
31	battles	battle	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 dawns	nmod
32	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 white	parataxis
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 break	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 white	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present				for Naisi's front; white property	tree rules
2	be		Naisi's tresses				tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	men		still		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	break in a quote	present	red dawns of battles	Naisi's cheek and roses			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on cheek=Location

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 69