--- title: ‘Perchance of us some future bard shall say, Their bright, swift lif… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Perchance of us some future bard shall say, Their bright, swift life went o’er them like a breath Of stormy southwind in the merry May; And brief their unfeared, undivided death: For unto those who love, and love aright, Life is Love’s day; and Death his long, sweet night.’ Who acts: Perchance, bri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/47/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/) / 47 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 47 ‘Perchance of us some future bard shall say, Their bright, swift life went o’er them like a breath Of stormy southwind in the merry May; And brief their unfeared, undivided death: For unto those who love, and love aright, Life is Love’s day; and Death his long, sweet night.’ **Who acts:** Perchance, bright swift life, Life, lovers · **What happens:** say, go, brief, love, be, die · **To what, where:** unfeared undivided death, day · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Perchance, bright swift life, Life, lovers), 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:pg78491:4:47 # text = ‘Perchance of us some future bard shall say, Their bright, swift life went o’er them like a breath Of stormy southwind in the merry May; And brief their unfeared, undivided death: For unto those who love, and love aright, Life is Love’s day; and Death his long, sweet night.’ 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Perchance perchance NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 nmod _ _ 5 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 7 det _ _ 6 future future ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 bard bard NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 8 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 say say VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 Their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 15 nmod:poss _ _ 12 bright bright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 14 swift swift ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 16 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 ccomp _ _ 17 o’er o'er ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ _ 19 like like ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 breath breath NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ _ 22 Of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 stormy stormy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 southwind southwind NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 merry merry PROPN NNP Number=Sing 24 nmod _ _ 28 May May PROPN NNP Number=Sing 27 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 And and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 31 brief brief VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 36 nmod:poss _ _ 33 unfeared unfeared ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 35 undivided undivided ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 : : PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ _ 38 For for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 unto unto ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 9 obl _ _ 41 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 42 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 love love VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 46 aright aright ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 , , PUNCT , _ 52 punct _ _ 48 Life Life PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nsubj _ _ 49 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 52 cop _ _ 50 Love Love PROPN NNP Number=Sing 52 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 51 ’s 's PART POS _ 50 case _ _ 52 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 55 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 55 cc _ _ 55 Death Death PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ _ 56 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 60 nmod:poss _ _ 57 long long ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 59 sweet sweet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 60 amod _ _ 60 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 55 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 61 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 62 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | shall | Perchance of us | | | | | for those; some future bard *nsubj*; Death *parataxis* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **go** | past | lovers's bright swift life | | | | | o'er lovers *= lover*; like a breath of stormy southwind in the merry | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **brief** *speech: other* | infinitive | Perchance of us *not said here* | lovers's unfeared undivided death | | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent death=Recipient | | 4 | **love** | present | | | | | | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 5 | **love** | present | | | | | | aright *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | present | Life | Love's day | | | | Love *nmod:poss* | tree rules | | 7 | **die** | | lovers *= lover* | | | | | | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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. - ← previous: [sentence 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/4/)