The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 71
Swiftly she walked: she came where stood the Three; Then from her white lips rushed her wrong like flame; ‘Dishonoured wife!’ she cried, ‘with me, with me, Though not the treason, lives for aye the shame!
Who acts: bride, white lips, Dishonoured wife, treason · What happens: walk, come, stand, rush, cry, live · To what, where: Three, wrong
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 (bride, white lips, Dishonoured wife, treason), 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 | Swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 stood | advmod |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Three | det |
| 10 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 rushed | punct |
| 12 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 rushed | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 lips | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 lips | nmod:poss |
| 15 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 lips | amod |
| 16 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 rushed | nsubj |
| 17 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wrong | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 rushed | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 21 flame | case |
| 21 | flame | flame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rushed | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 cried | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 24 | Dishonoured | dishonoured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wife | amod |
| 25 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 cried | nsubj |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 wife | punct |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 cried | nsubj |
| 29 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 31 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 me | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 me | case |
| 33 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 cried | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 me | punct |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 me | case |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 cried | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lives | punct |
| 38 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 43 lives | mark |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 treason | advmod |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 treason | det |
| 41 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lives | nsubj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 treason | punct |
| 43 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 cried | conj |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 shame | case |
| 45 | aye | aye | ADP | _ | 47 shame | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 shame | det |
| 47 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lives | obl |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | bride | swiftly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | bride | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | stand | past | bride not said here | the Three | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer three=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | rush | past | bride's white lips | bride's wrong | then | like flame | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme wrong=Trajectory | ||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | Dishonoured wife | with me; with me; bride nsubj | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | live | present | the treason | for the shame | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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