The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 32
She, the warrior nearing, Held forth both hands, and gazed upon him mute; And last, in love’s high truth--and truth is best-- Made answer; ‘Thine!’
Who acts: passion, truth · What happens: near, hold, gaze, be, make · To what, where: Thine, hands, mute, answer
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 (passion, truth), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nearing | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nearing | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 warrior | det |
| 4 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nearing | nsubj |
| 5 | nearing | near | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Held | punct |
| 7 | Held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nearing | acl |
| 8 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 7 Held | advmod |
| 9 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 hands | det |
| 10 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 Held | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 gazed | cc |
| 13 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nearing | parataxis |
| 14 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gazed | obl |
| 16 | mute | mute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gazed | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 last | punct |
| 18 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 last | cc |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 gazed | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 ’s | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 ’s | case |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ’s | compound |
| 23 | ’s | ' | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 last | obl |
| 24 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 truth | amod |
| 25 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ’s | conj |
| 26 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 30 best | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 best | cc |
| 28 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 best | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 best | cop |
| 30 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 gazed | obj |
| 31 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 32 Made | punct |
| 32 | Made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 best | parataxis |
| 33 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Made | obj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gazed | punct |
| 35 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 36 Thine | punct |
| 36 | Thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 nearing | obj |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 nearing | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 nearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | near | gerund | passion | Thine | the warrior nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | participle | both hands | forth property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gaze | past | mute | upon warrior | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | truth | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | participle | answer | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset answer=Product |
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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