The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 10, sentence 16
Protect the weak, the small!’
Who acts: you · What happens: protect · To what, where: weak
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Protect | protect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weak | det |
| 3 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Protect | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 small | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 small | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weak | conj |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Protect | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Protect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | imperative | you not said here | the weak | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Beneficiary |
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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