The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 61
‘Great Lords and Kings--since Kings ye claim to be-- King-vassals, world-renowned for mutual hate, Alone of men I censure not your strifes, Knowing their cause.
Who acts: Great Lords, I, men · What happens: claim, be, renown, not be, know, hate · To what, where: -- King vassals, strifes, cause, men
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 (Great Lords, I, men), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lords | punct |
| 2 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Lords | amod |
| 3 | Lords | lord | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 claim | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Kings | cc |
| 5 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Lords | conj |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 8 Kings | punct |
| 7 | since | since | ADP | _ | 8 Kings | case |
| 8 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Lords | conj |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 Kings | nmod |
| 10 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 vassals | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 vassals | cop |
| 13 | -- | -- | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 vassals | amod |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 vassals | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 King | punct |
| 16 | vassals | vassal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 claim | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 renowned | punct |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 renowned | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 world | punct |
| 20 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 vassals | acl |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 hate | case |
| 22 | mutual | mutual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hate | amod |
| 23 | hate | hate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 renowned | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Alone | punct |
| 25 | Alone | Alone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hate | appos |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 men | case |
| 27 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 hate | nmod |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 strifes | nsubj |
| 29 | censure | censure | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 strifes | cop |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 strifes | advmod |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 strifes | nmod:poss |
| 32 | strifes | strife | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 men | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Knowing | punct |
| 34 | Knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 claim | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 cause | nmod:poss |
| 36 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Knowing | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 claim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | claim speech: other | present | Great Lords and Kings and Kings ye | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | -- King vassals | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | renown | participle | -- King vassals not said here | for mutual hate of men; world compound | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is a | present | I | your strifes | your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | know | gerund | Great Lords and Kings and Kings ye not said here | men's cause | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | hate | men | nom hate «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | cause | men = man | nom cause «event 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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