--- title: Naisi she loved from childhood; loved scarce less His brothers; felt… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Naisi she loved from childhood; loved scarce less His brothers; felt for Deirdré love and spleen:-- ‘Through grace of yours, all-bashful Forwardness, Save for my craft this trunk had headless been! Who acts: Naisi, trunk, my. 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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 (Naisi, trunk, my), 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:pg78491:6:58 # text = Naisi she loved from childhood; loved scarce less His brothers; felt for Deirdré love and spleen:-- ‘Through grace of yours, all-bashful Forwardness, Save for my craft this trunk had headless been! 1 Naisi Naisi PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 loved love VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 5 childhood childhood NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 7 loved love VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 8 scarce scarce ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 7 advmod _ _ 10 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 brothers brother NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ; ; PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 13 felt feel VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 14 for for ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 Deirdré Deirdré PROPN NNP Number=Sing 16 compound _ _ 16 love love NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obl _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 spleen spleen NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 19 : : PUNCT : _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 -- -- PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 22 Through through ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 23 grace grace NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 27 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 30 det _ SpaceAfter=No 28 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 27 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 29 bashful bashful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 Forwardness forwardness NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 32 Save save VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 23 parataxis _ _ 33 for for ADP IN _ 35 case _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 craft craft NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ _ 36 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 37 det _ _ 37 trunk trunk NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 nsubj _ _ 38 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 32 advcl _ _ 39 headless headless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 xcomp _ _ 40 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 39 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ! ! PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **love** | past | Naisi | | | childhood | | grace of yours and all bashful Forwardness *parataxis* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **love** | participle | Naisi *not said here* | | | | | less *property* | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **feel** | participle | Naisi *not said here* | | | | | for Deirdré love and spleen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for love=Theme | | 4 | **save** | infinitive | | | | | | for my craft | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for craft=Source | | 5 | **have** | past | this trunk | | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | participle | this trunk *not said here* | | | | | headless *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **craft** | | my | | | | | | nom craft «act transitive»: 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 56](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/56/) - next →: [sentence 58](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/58/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/)