The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 69
Say, She must be first my love; my queen one day!’
Who acts: you, bride, my · What happens: say, be, love · 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 (you, bride, my), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 first | punct |
| 3 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 first | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 first | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 first | cop |
| 6 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 love | nmod:poss |
| 8 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 first | vocative |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 queen | punct |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 queen | nmod:poss |
| 11 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Say | ccomp |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 queen | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | my queen one day ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | must | bride | my love vocative; first property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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