The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 64
‘Till now thou hast not found a woman meet In all thy land the royal throne to share; Behold, the loveliest lady and most sweet Of all the earth is near, and thou not ’ware!
Who acts: woman, earth, thou · What happens: not find, meet, share, be, not ware · To what, where: thou, land · 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 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, earth, thou), 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 | _ | 7 found | punct |
| 2 | Till | till | ADP | _ | 3 now | case |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 found | obl |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 found | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 found | advmod |
| 7 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 woman | det |
| 9 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 found | ccomp |
| 11 | In | in | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 land | det |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 land | nmod:poss |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 meet | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 throne | det |
| 16 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 throne | amod |
| 17 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 land | appos |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 share | mark |
| 19 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 throne | acl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 lady | punct |
| 21 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 25 lady | discourse |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Behold | punct |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 24 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 lady | amod |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sweet | cc |
| 27 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 28 sweet | amod |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lady | conj |
| 29 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 34 near | mark |
| 30 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 near | det:predet |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 earth | det |
| 32 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 near | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 near | cop |
| 34 | near | near | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sweet | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 ware | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 ware | cc |
| 37 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 ware | nsubj |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 ware | advmod |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 ware | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ware | ware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 found | obl |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find | present · perfect · passive | thou | the loveliest lady and most sweet obl | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | infinitive | a woman | thy land | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | share | to-infinitive | a woman not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is | present | the earth | near property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not ware | thou | ’ nmod:poss | 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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