The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 24
‘One time by far Loch Etive--’twas in jest-- My Naisi kissed a sweet-eyed Alban maid: I sought my death! my bark from crest to crest I dashed, too deeply wounded to upbraid!
Who acts: Naisi, I, my · What happens: kiss, seek, dash, upbraid, die · To what, where: eyed Alban maid, death, crest
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Naisi, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 2 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 time | nummod |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kissed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Loch | case |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 Loch | advmod |
| 6 | Loch | Loch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 time | nmod |
| 7 | Etive | Etive | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Loch | flat |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 twas | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | SYM | _ | 10 twas | punct |
| 10 | twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 Loch | appos |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 jest | case |
| 12 | jest | jest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 twas | nmod |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Naisi | punct |
| 14 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Naisi | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 kissed | nsubj |
| 16 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maid | det |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 eyed | amod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweet | punct |
| 20 | eyed | eyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 maid | amod |
| 21 | Alban | Alban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 maid | compound |
| 22 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kissed | obj |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 sought | punct |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kissed | conj |
| 26 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 death | nmod:poss |
| 27 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obj |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 sought | punct |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 bark | nmod:poss |
| 30 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obj |
| 31 | from | from | ADP | _ | 32 crest | case |
| 32 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sought | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 crest | case |
| 34 | crest | crest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 crest | nmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 dashed | nsubj |
| 36 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 crest | acl:relcl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 wounded | punct |
| 38 | too | too | ADV | _ | 39 deeply | advmod |
| 39 | deeply | deeply | ADV | _ | 40 wounded | advmod |
| 40 | wounded | wounded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sought | conj |
| 41 | to | to | PART | _ | 42 upbraid | mark |
| 42 | upbraid | upbraid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 wounded | xcomp |
| 43 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 kissed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kiss | past | My Naisi | a eyed Alban maid | time | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent maid=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | seek | past | I | my death | crest to crest | my bark obj | tree rules | ||
| 3 | dash | past | I | crest not said here | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crest=Patient | ||||
| 4 | upbraid | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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