The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 141
Say, ere sets yon sun I join the king my master, from his gate Repel with scorn the invader.’
Who acts: you, ere, I · What happens: say, set, join · To what, where: yon sun, king · 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 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, ere, I), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sets | punct |
| 3 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sets | nsubj |
| 4 | sets | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 5 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sun | compound |
| 6 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sets | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 join | nsubj |
| 8 | join | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 sets | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 join | obj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 master | nmod:poss |
| 12 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 join | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gate | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 gate | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 gate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sets | conj |
| 17 | Repel | Repel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | appos |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 scorn | case |
| 19 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gate | nmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 invader | det |
| 21 | invader | invader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 scorn | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | set | present | ere | yon sun | Ere's gate with scorn conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | join | present | I | the king | my master obj | tree rules |
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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