The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 57
Naisi she loved from childhood; loved scarce less His brothers; felt for Deirdré love and spleen:-- ‘Through grace of yours, all-bashful Forwardness, Save for my craft this trunk had headless been!
Who acts: Naisi, trunk, my · What happens: love, feel, save, have, be, craft · To what, where: childhood
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, trunk, 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 | Naisi | Naisi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loved | nsubj |
| 3 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 childhood | case |
| 5 | childhood | childhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | obl |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 loved | punct |
| 7 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loved | conj |
| 8 | scarce | scarce | ADV | _ | 9 less | advmod |
| 9 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 loved | advmod |
| 10 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 less | iobj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 loved | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 love | case |
| 15 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 love | compound |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 felt | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 spleen | cc |
| 18 | spleen | spleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 love | conj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 grace | punct |
| 20 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 23 grace | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 grace | punct |
| 22 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 23 grace | case |
| 23 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loved | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 yours | case |
| 25 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 grace | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Forwardness | punct |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 Forwardness | det |
| 28 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 all | punct |
| 29 | bashful | bashful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Forwardness | amod |
| 30 | Forwardness | forwardness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grace | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Save | punct |
| 32 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 23 grace | parataxis |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 craft | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 craft | nmod:poss |
| 35 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Save | obl |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 trunk | det |
| 37 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 had | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 Save | advcl |
| 39 | headless | headless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 had | xcomp |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 headless | cop |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 loved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | past | Naisi | childhood | grace of yours and all bashful Forwardness parataxis | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | love | participle | Naisi not said here | less property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | feel | participle | Naisi not said here | for Deirdré love and spleen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for love=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | infinitive | for my craft | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for craft=Source | |||||
| 5 | have | past | this trunk | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is | participle | this trunk not said here | headless property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | craft | my | nom craft «act 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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