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title: ‘These be Love’s colours, white and black, and red:-- Some little fo… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘These be Love’s colours, white and black, and red:-- Some little foolish maid, to love inclined, Might say: “Though all should love me none shall wed Until in one dear face those three I find; Not raven locks alone, or front of snow, But on the heroic cheek the battle’s glow!”’ Who acts: These, Som
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# The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 3, sentence 67

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‘These be Love’s colours, white and black, and red:-- Some little foolish maid, to love inclined, Might say: “Though all should love me none shall wed Until in one dear face those three I find; Not raven locks alone, or front of snow, But on the heroic cheek the battle’s glow!”’

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**Who acts:** These, Some, all, none, three, battle · **What happens:** be, maid, love, say, wed, find · **To what, where:** colours, me, Until, one dear face · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, Some, all, none), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg78491:3:67
# text = ‘These be Love’s colours, white and black, and red:-- Some little foolish maid, to love inclined, Might say: “Though all should love me none shall wed Until in one dear face those three I find; Not raven locks alone, or front of snow, But on the heroic cheek the battle’s glow!”’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	cop	_	_
4	Love	Love	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’s	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	red	red	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	nsubj	_	_
17	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	foolish	foolish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	maid	maid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	love	love	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	19	parataxis	_	_
23	inclined	inclined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	Might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	32	nsubj	_	_
31	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	love	love	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	ccomp	_	_
33	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	36	nsubj	_	_
35	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	wed	wed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
37	Until	Until	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
38	in	in	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	41	nummod	_	_
40	dear	dear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	43	det	_	_
43	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	45	nsubj	_	_
44	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
45	find	find	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	49	punct	_	_
47	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	49	advmod	_	_
48	raven	raven	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	locks	lock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
50	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
52	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
53	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	snow	snow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	65	punct	_	_
57	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	65	cc	_	_
58	on	on	ADP	IN	_	61	case	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	compound	_	_
62	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	63	det	_	_
63	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	65	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	’s	's	PART	POS	_	63	case	_	_
65	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
66	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	65	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
68	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | infinitive | These | Love's colours and little foolish maid |  |  |  | Love *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **maid** |  | Some |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **love** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | the battle's cheek glow *parataxis*; inclined *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 4 | **say** *speech: express* | might |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **love** *in a quote* | should | all | me |  |  |  | raven locks *obl*; front of snow *obl* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
| 6 | **wed** *in a quote* | shall | none | Until |  | one dear face |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent until=Patient |
| 7 | **find** *in a quote* | present | that three |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 8 | **glow** *in a quote* |  | the battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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