The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 62
The very air you breathe, The founts whereof you drink, the soil you tread, Are all impregnate with a sacred rage; And false alike to usage, country, blood, Were he among you who, for three hours’ space, Discerned ’twixt friend and foeman.
Who acts: you, air · What happens: breathe, drink, tread, be · To what, where: air, soil, Alone
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, air), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 air | det |
| 2 | very | very | ADV | _ | 3 air | advmod |
| 3 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 impregnate | nsubj |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 breathe | nsubj |
| 5 | breathe | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 air | acl:relcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 air | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 founts | det |
| 8 | founts | fount | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 impregnate | nsubj |
| 9 | whereof | whereof | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 drink | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 drink | nsubj |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 founts | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 soil | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 soil | det |
| 14 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 founts | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tread | nsubj |
| 16 | tread | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 soil | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tread | punct |
| 18 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 impregnate | cop |
| 19 | all | all | ADV | _ | 20 impregnate | advmod |
| 20 | impregnate | impregnate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 rage | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 rage | det |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 rage | amod |
| 24 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 impregnate | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 alike | punct |
| 26 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 alike | cc |
| 27 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 alike | amod |
| 28 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 impregnate | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 usage | case |
| 30 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 alike | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 country | punct |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 usage | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 blood | punct |
| 34 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 usage | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 usage | punct |
| 36 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 he | cop |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 alike | obl |
| 38 | among | among | ADP | _ | 39 you | case |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 37 he | obl |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 he | parataxis |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 hours | punct |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 44 hours | case |
| 43 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 44 hours | nummod |
| 44 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 space | compound |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 44 hours | punct |
| 46 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 who | nsubj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 friend | punct |
| 48 | Discerned | discerned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 friend | amod |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 48 Discerned | punct |
| 50 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 friend | compound |
| 51 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 space | appos |
| 52 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 foeman | cc |
| 53 | foeman | foeman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 friend | conj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 impregnate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breathe | present | you | the air not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | present | you | whereof property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tread | present | you | the soil not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location soil=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the air | with a sacred rage; the founts and the soil nsubj; all, impregnate property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | the air not said here | to usage and country and blood | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | Alone | among you; who hours space parataxis | 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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