The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 28
Tell them I join their feast: tell them beside Their bribe shall prove base gold!’
Who acts: you, I, bribe, glories · What happens: tell, join, prove, bribe · To what, where: glories, feast, base gold · 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 (you, I, bribe, glories), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 join | nsubj |
| 4 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | ccomp |
| 5 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feast | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 join | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 tell | punct |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Tell | conj |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 14 prove | mark |
| 11 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 bribe | nmod:poss |
| 12 | bribe | bribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 prove | aux |
| 14 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tell | advcl |
| 15 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gold | compound |
| 16 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 prove | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | glories = glory | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | join | present | I | glories's feast | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feast=Patient | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | you not said here | glories = glory | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | prove | shall | glories's bribe | base gold | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bribe | glories = glory | nom bribe «possession 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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