The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 30
He spake; then, for the maiden’s safety fearing, With passion changed continued; ‘Spurn my suit!
Who acts: safety, passion · What happens: fear, change, continue, spurn · To what, where: suit, spake
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (safety, passion), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 spake | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 then | punct |
| 4 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 spake | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 safety | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 safety | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maiden | det |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 safety | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 maiden | case |
| 10 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spake | conj |
| 11 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 safety | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 changed | punct |
| 13 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 15 changed | mark |
| 14 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 changed | nsubj |
| 15 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fearing | advcl |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 changed | xcomp |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 Spurn | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 Spurn | punct |
| 19 | Spurn | spurn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 spake | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 suit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Spurn | obj |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 spake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | gerund | the maiden's safety not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | change | past | passion | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | continue | participle | passion not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spurn | infinitive | my suit | 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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