The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 82
Twas not I. I know you now, and proffer royal terms Confirmed by guarantee of all our kings: Accept this combat; and the princess wed!
Who acts: Twas, proffer royal terms · What happens: know, confirm, accept, guarantee · To what, where: you, proffer royal terms, combat, kings
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 (Twas, proffer royal terms), 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 | Twas | twa | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | nsubj |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 I. | advmod |
| 3 | I. | i. | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Twas | nmod |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 know | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 know | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 terms | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 terms | cc |
| 10 | proffer | proffer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 terms | compound |
| 11 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 terms | amod |
| 12 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 know | obl |
| 13 | Confirmed | confirm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 terms | acl |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 guarantee | case |
| 15 | guarantee | guarantee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Confirmed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 kings | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 kings | det:predet |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kings | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 guarantee | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Accept | punct |
| 21 | Accept | accept | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 terms | acl:relcl |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 combat | det |
| 23 | combat | combat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 Accept | obj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 wed | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 wed | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wed | det |
| 27 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wed | compound |
| 28 | wed | wed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | conj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Twas I. | you | now | proffer royal terms obl; I nsubj; the princess wed conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | confirm | participle | proffer royal terms not said here | by guarantee of our kings | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | accept | infinitive | proffer royal terms not said here | this combat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent combat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | guarantee | our kings | nom guarantee «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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