--- title: Sadness is celibate and eremite: His converse long had been with inj… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Sadness is celibate and eremite: His converse long had been with injuries past, In Scatha’s isle with frowning crags and clouds-- Aye, but with one beside, a friend, his nearest, Who loved that maid, and sued her grace. Who acts: converse long, isle. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (converse long, isle), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:13:78 # text = Sadness is celibate and eremite: His converse long had been with injuries past, In Scatha’s isle with frowning crags and clouds-- Aye, but with one beside, a friend, his nearest, Who loved that maid, and sued her grace. 1 Sadness sadness NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 compound _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 celibate celibate NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 4 and and CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 5 eremite eremite NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 7 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 8 converse converse ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 long long NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ _ 10 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 11 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 13 cop _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 injuries injury NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 appos _ _ 14 past past ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 16 In in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 17 Scatha Scatha PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 18 ’s 's PART POS _ 17 case _ _ 19 isle isle NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 conj _ _ 20 with with SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 21 frowning frown VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 acl _ _ 22 crags crag NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 clouds cloud NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 -- -- PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 26 Aye aye INTJ UH _ 37 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nsubj _ _ 31 beside beside ADP IN _ 30 fixed _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 friend friend NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 13 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 40 nsubj _ _ 40 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 37 parataxis _ _ 41 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 42 det _ _ 42 maid maid NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 sued sue VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 40 conj _ _ 46 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 47 nmod:poss _ _ 47 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | | Sadness celibate and eremite | | | | eremite *conj* | tree rules | | 2 | **is** | past · perfect | cliff's converse long | | | | | with injuries and Scatha's isle; Scatha's isle *conj*; past *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **frown** | gerund | Scatha's isle *not said here* | crags and clouds | | | | | vn nonverbal\_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crag=Theme | | 4 | **love** | past | | that maid | | | | Who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maid=Stimulus | | 5 | **sue** | past | | maid's grace | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 75](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/75/) - next →: [sentence 77](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/77/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)