The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 24
Nowhere, methinks, thou better lov’st to dwell Than in the hearts of innocents that still, By dangerous love untempted, work Love’s will!
Who acts: thou, innocents · What happens: lov'st, dwell, untempt, work · To what, where: Than, hearts, dangerous love, methinks
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, innocents), 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 | Nowhere | nowhere | ADV | PronType=Neg | 3 methinks | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nowhere | punct |
| 3 | methinks | methink | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lov’st | punct |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 lov’st | nsubj |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 lov’st | amod |
| 7 | lov’st | lov'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 methinks | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 dwell | mark |
| 9 | dwell | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 lov’st | acl |
| 10 | Than | Than | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dwell | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hearts | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hearts | det |
| 13 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dwell | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 innocents | case |
| 15 | innocents | innocent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 hearts | nmod |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 work | nsubj |
| 17 | still | still | ADV | _ | 24 work | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 still | punct |
| 19 | By | by | ADP | _ | 21 love | case |
| 20 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 love | amod |
| 21 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | nsubj |
| 22 | untempted | untempt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 love | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 work | punct |
| 24 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 innocents | acl:relcl |
| 25 | Love | Love | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 will | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 Love | case |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 work | advcl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 methinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lov'st | thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | dwell | to-infinitive | Than | the hearts of innocents | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme than=Location | ||||
| 3 | untempt | participle | dangerous love not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | work | infinitive | innocents | still | dangerous love nsubj | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=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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