The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 57
I keep The ford; but who shall guard it when I die?’
Who acts: I · What happens: keep, guard, die · To what, where: ford
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 keep | nsubj |
| 2 | keep | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ford | det |
| 4 | ford | ford | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 keep | obj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 guard | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 guard | cc |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 guard | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 guard | aux |
| 9 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 keep | advcl |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 guard | obj |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 die | advmod |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 die | nsubj |
| 13 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 guard | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | present | I | the ford | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ford=Theme | ||||
| 2 | guard | shall | ford | who nsubj | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | die | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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