The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 40
Take with thee golden store, Rich garments, chariots gemmed: bid Daré choose; But bring me back that Bull!’
Who acts: you, Daré · What happens: take, gem, bid, choose, bring back · To what, where: golden store, Rich garments, me
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 (you, Daré), 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 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 thee | case |
| 3 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Take | obl |
| 4 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 store | amod |
| 5 | store | store | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 garments | punct |
| 7 | Rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 garments | amod |
| 8 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Take | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chariots | punct |
| 10 | chariots | chariot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 garments | conj |
| 11 | gemmed | gem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 garments | acl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 bid | punct |
| 13 | bid | bid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 14 | Daré | Daré | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 choose | nsubj |
| 15 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 bid | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 bring | punct |
| 17 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 bring | cc |
| 18 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Take | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 bring | obj |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 bring | advmod |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 Bull | mark |
| 22 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 bring | advcl |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | golden store | with thee; Rich garments and chariots obl | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent store=Theme | |||
| 2 | gem | participle | Rich garments and chariots not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bid | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | choose | present | Daré | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | me | Bull advcl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination |
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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