The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 12, sentence 65
Then Meave resolved, Though all my host should perish to a man This foot shall tread no more my native plains Save with that Bull in charge!
Who acts: Meave, host, foot, native plains · What happens: resolve, perish, tread, save · To what, where: more
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 (Meave, host, foot, native plains), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | Meave | Meave | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 resolved | nsubj |
| 3 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 perish | punct |
| 5 | Though | though | SCONJ | _ | 10 perish | mark |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 host | det:predet |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 host | nmod:poss |
| 8 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perish | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 perish | aux |
| 10 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 resolved | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 man | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perish | obl |
| 14 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 foot | det |
| 15 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tread | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 tread | aux |
| 17 | tread | tread | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 perish | conj |
| 18 | no | no | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 tread | obj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 plains | nmod:poss |
| 21 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 plains | amod |
| 22 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 Save | nsubj |
| 23 | Save | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 tread | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 Bull | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 Bull | det |
| 26 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Save | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 charge | case |
| 28 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 Bull | nmod |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | Meave | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | perish | should | my host | to a man | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tread | shall | this foot | more | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location more=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | present | my native plains | with that Bull in charge | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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