The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 120
If his host, Now dubious, joins the bands that vex our flank No choice remains but this, a homeward course Or, if a march to Eman, then the loss Of half our hard-earned spoil and hate thenceforth Of all our vassal kings.’
Who acts: bands, choice, this, our · What happens: join, vex, remain, course, earn, spoil · To what, where: bands, flank
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bands, choice, this, our), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 host | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 host | nmod:poss |
| 3 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 joins | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dubious | punct |
| 5 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 dubious | advmod |
| 6 | dubious | dubious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 host | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 host | punct |
| 8 | joins | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bands | det |
| 10 | bands | band | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 joins | obj |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 vex | nsubj |
| 12 | vex | vex | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 bands | acl:relcl |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 flank | nmod:poss |
| 14 | flank | flank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vex | obj |
| 15 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 choice | det |
| 16 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remains | nsubj |
| 17 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 vex | parataxis |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 course | cc |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 course | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 course | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 course | det |
| 22 | homeward | homeward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 course | compound |
| 23 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 remains | conj |
| 24 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 49 kings | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Or | punct |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 49 kings | mark |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 march | det |
| 28 | march | march | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 kings | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Eman | case |
| 30 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 march | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 loss | punct |
| 32 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 loss | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 loss | det |
| 34 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 march | conj |
| 35 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 41 spoil | case |
| 36 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 41 spoil | det:predet |
| 37 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 spoil | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 earned | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 hard | punct |
| 40 | earned | earn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 spoil | amod |
| 41 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 loss | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 hate | cc |
| 43 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 spoil | conj |
| 44 | thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 49 kings | advmod |
| 45 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 49 kings | case |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 kings | det:predet |
| 47 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 kings | nmod:poss |
| 48 | vassal | vassal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 kings | amod |
| 49 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 course | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 joins | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 joins | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | present | the bands | site's host advcl | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent band=Patient | ||||
| 2 | vex | present | the bands | our flank | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus flank=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | no choice | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | course | this | our vassal kings a march to Eman and the loss of our earned spoil and hate conj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | earn | participle | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | spoil | our | nom spoil «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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