The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 41
In graver mood At parting Fergus spake; ‘For thee unmeet That pact of Meave, though not for her: but thou Conceal not, know’st thou meeter terms, and fit?’
Who acts: thou · What happens: not conceal, know'st, fit · To what, where: thou, graver mood
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 mood | case |
| 2 | graver | grave | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 mood | amod |
| 3 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | At | at | ADP | _ | 5 parting | case |
| 5 | parting | parting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mood | nmod |
| 6 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 spake | compound |
| 7 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 parting | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 unmeet | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 unmeet | punct |
| 10 | For | for | ADP | _ | 12 unmeet | case |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 unmeet | nsubj |
| 12 | unmeet | unmeet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 mood | appos |
| 13 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 pact | det |
| 14 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 her | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Meave | case |
| 16 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 pact | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 her | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 21 her | mark |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 her | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 her | case |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 unmeet | conj |
| 22 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Conceal | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 Conceal | cc |
| 24 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 Conceal | nsubj |
| 25 | Conceal | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 unmeet | parataxis |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 Conceal | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 know’st | punct |
| 28 | know’st | know'st | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 Conceal | conj |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 know’st | obj |
| 30 | meeter | meet | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 terms | amod |
| 31 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 know’st | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fit | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 fit | cc |
| 34 | fit | fit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 know’st | conj |
| 35 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 unmeet | punct |
| 36 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 unmeet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not conceal | present | thou | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know'st | infinitive | thou not said here | thou | meeter terms obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fit | infinitive | thou not said here | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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.
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