The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 82
The maiden paused; she mused; again she spake, Fixing on Levarcam those marvellous eyes; ‘Three be Love’s colours--white, and red, and black: White, for the sake of Love’s white sanctities; And red, for Love must war on many a foe; And black, since Love, though crowned, must end in woe.’
Who acts: maiden, Deirdré · What happens: pause, muse, fix, be, crown, end · To what, where: she spake, marvellous eyes, Levarcam, Three colours, woe
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, Deirdré), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maiden | det |
| 2 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | nsubj |
| 3 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 6 mused | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 mused | nsubj |
| 6 | mused | muse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 paused | conj |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 10 spake | advmod |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spake | compound |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mused | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Fixing | punct |
| 12 | Fixing | fix | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 mused | advcl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 Levarcam | case |
| 14 | Levarcam | Levarcam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Fixing | obl |
| 15 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 eyes | det |
| 16 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eyes | amod |
| 17 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Fixing | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 colours | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 colours | punct |
| 20 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 colours | nummod |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 colours | cop |
| 22 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 colours | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Love | case |
| 24 | colours | colour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 paused | obl |
| 25 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 26 white | punct |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 colours | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 black | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 black | cc |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 black | amod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 black | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 black | cc |
| 32 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 34 White | punct |
| 34 | White | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 black | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 sake | punct |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 sake | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 sake | det |
| 38 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 paused | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 sanctities | case |
| 40 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 sanctities | nmod:poss |
| 41 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 40 Love | case |
| 42 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 sanctities | amod |
| 43 | sanctities | sanctity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 sake | nmod |
| 44 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 red | punct |
| 45 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 red | cc |
| 46 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 war | punct |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 51 war | case |
| 49 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 war | compound |
| 50 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 war | aux |
| 51 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 red | conj |
| 52 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 foe | case |
| 53 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 foe | amod |
| 54 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 55 foe | det |
| 55 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 war | nmod |
| 56 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 58 black | punct |
| 57 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 58 black | cc |
| 58 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 paused | parataxis |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 61 Love | punct |
| 60 | since | since | ADP | _ | 61 Love | case |
| 61 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 58 black | vocative |
| 62 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 64 crowned | punct |
| 63 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 64 crowned | mark |
| 64 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 paused | conj |
| 65 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 67 end | punct |
| 66 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 67 end | aux |
| 67 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 64 crowned | parataxis |
| 68 | in | in | ADP | _ | 69 woe | case |
| 69 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 67 end | obl |
| 70 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
| 71 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | the maiden | for the sake of Love's white sanctities | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | muse | past | Deirdré | she spake | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fix | gerund | Deirdré not said here | that marvellous eyes | Levarcam | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | |||
| 4 | is a | infinitive | Love's Three colours | Love nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 6 | crown | participle | the maiden not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | end | must | woe | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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