The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 19

The herald’s task discharged, He answered thus, not turning; ‘Tell your queen That I, a Firbolg, serve, but not for hire, A cause not mine.

Who acts: task, herald · What happens: discharge, answer, not turn, tell, task · To what, where: task, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (task, herald), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 herald	det
2	herald	herald	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 task	nmod:poss
3	’s	's	PART	_	2 herald	case
4	task	task	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 answered	nsubj
5	discharged	discharge	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 task	acl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct
7	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 answered	nsubj
8	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	thus	thus	ADV	_	8 answered	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 turning	punct
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 turning	advmod
12	turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 answered	parataxis
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 Tell	punct
15	Tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 answered	conj
16	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 queen	nmod:poss
17	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	obj
18	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 I	nsubj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 queen	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Firbolg	punct
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Firbolg	det
22	Firbolg	Firbolg	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 queen	appos
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 serve	punct
24	serve	serve	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 queen	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 hire	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	29 hire	cc
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 hire	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 hire	case
29	hire	hire	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Tell	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 cause	punct
31	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 cause	det
32	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 hire	conj
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	34 mine	advmod
34	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 cause	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	discharge	participle		the herald's task not said here			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	answer speech: assert	past	the herald's task			thus property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not turn	gerund					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	tell speech: assert	infinitive	the herald's task not said here		your queen I and serve	for hire and a cause mine	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
5	task		the herald				nom task «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 19

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 19