The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 27
At last she spake; ‘Self-questioning thoughts repel, Nor grieve at trust misplaced; for all is well!
Who acts: questioning thoughts, Nor, all · What happens: question, repel, grieve, misplace, be · To what, where: last she spake, trust
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (questioning thoughts, Nor, all), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 spake | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 spake | amod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spake | compound |
| 4 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 repel | obl |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 spake | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 repel | punct |
| 7 | Self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 questioning | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Self | punct |
| 9 | questioning | question | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 thoughts | amod |
| 10 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 repel | nsubj |
| 11 | repel | repel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 grieve | punct |
| 13 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 grieve | nsubj |
| 14 | grieve | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 repel | conj |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 trust | case |
| 16 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 grieve | obl |
| 17 | misplaced | misplace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 trust | acl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 well | punct |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 all | case |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 well | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 well | cop |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 repel | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 11 repel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | question speech: other | gerund | Self compound | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | repel | present | questioning thoughts | last she spake | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | grieve | present | Nor | trust | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | misplace | participle | trust not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | is | present | all | well property | tree rules |
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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