The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 161
Unless thou know’st what hand this Ogham traced Twine yonder berries mid thy young bride’s locks, But spare to tempt that hand!’
Who acts: Unless know’st · What happens: hand, trace, spare, tempt · To what, where: Twine, hand
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Unless know’st), 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 | Unless | unless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know’st | amod |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 know’st | nsubj |
| 3 | know’st | know' | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 traced | nsubj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 hand | obj |
| 5 | hand | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know’st | acl:relcl |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 Ogham | det |
| 7 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 traced | nsubj |
| 8 | traced | trace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Twine | twine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 traced | obj |
| 10 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 8 traced | advmod |
| 11 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 traced | obj |
| 12 | mid | mid | X | _ | 11 berries | acl:relcl |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 bride | nmod:poss |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bride | amod |
| 15 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 locks | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 bride | case |
| 17 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 berries | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spare | punct |
| 19 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 spare | cc |
| 20 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 traced | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 tempt | mark |
| 22 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 spare | xcomp |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hand | det |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tempt | obj |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 20 spare | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 spare | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hand | present | what obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | trace | past | Unless know’st thou | Twine | this Ogham nsubj; berries and thy young bride's locks obj; yonder property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | spare | infinitive | Unless know’st thou not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tempt | to-infinitive | Unless know’st thou not said here | that hand | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Recipient |
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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