The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 74
‘Forth to the Red-Branch Mansion let him speed, And there with Deirdré secret converse hold, And learn if yet upon her lives indeed The glory of that beauty hers of old.’
Who acts: Branch Mansion, king, beauty · What happens: let, speed, learn, glory · To what, where: king, glory
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 (Branch Mansion, king, beauty), 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 | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 2 | Forth | forth | ADV | _ | 9 let | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 9 let | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Mansion | det |
| 5 | Red | Red | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Branch | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Red | punct |
| 7 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mansion | compound |
| 8 | Mansion | Mansion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 let | nsubj |
| 9 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 let | obj |
| 11 | speed | speed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 learn | punct |
| 13 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learn | cc |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 learn | expl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 hold | case |
| 16 | Deirdré | Deirdré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 hold | nsubj |
| 17 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hold | amod |
| 18 | converse | converse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hold | amod |
| 19 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 there | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 learn | punct |
| 21 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 learn | cc |
| 22 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 let | conj |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 yet | mark |
| 24 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 30 glory | advmod |
| 25 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 lives | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lives | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 yet | obl |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 30 glory | advmod |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 glory | det |
| 30 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 learn | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 beauty | case |
| 32 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 beauty | det |
| 33 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 glory | nmod |
| 34 | hers | her | PRON | Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 beauty | conj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 old | case |
| 36 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hers | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
| 38 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the Branch Mansion | king | forth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | speed | infinitive | king not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | learn | infinitive | the Branch Mansion not said here | the glory of that beauty beauty | there | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent glory=Topic | |||
| 4 | glory | that beauty beauty | nom glory «state intransitive»: of=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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