The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 83
But sloth and fear In manly hearts at worst rare visitants, Leave them betimes, like vermin caught by chance That quit ere long the clean.
Who acts: you, That · What happens: leave, catch, quit · To what, where: sloth, vermin
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, That), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 Leave | cc |
| 2 | sloth | sloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 fear | cc |
| 4 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sloth | conj |
| 5 | In | in | ADP | _ | 7 hearts | case |
| 6 | manly | manly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearts | amod |
| 7 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fear | nmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 visitants | case |
| 9 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 visitants | amod |
| 10 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 visitants | amod |
| 11 | visitants | visitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sloth | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sloth | punct |
| 13 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Leave | obj |
| 15 | betimes | betimes | ADV | _ | 13 Leave | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 vermin | punct |
| 17 | like | like | ADP | _ | 18 vermin | case |
| 18 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Leave | obl |
| 19 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 vermin | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chance | case |
| 21 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 caught | obl |
| 22 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 quit | nsubj |
| 23 | quit | quit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 caught | parataxis |
| 24 | ere | ere | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 quit | advmod |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 clean | det |
| 27 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 long | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | sloth at worst rare visitants and fear in manly hearts | like vermin; visitants = visitant obj; betimes property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | participle | vermin not said here | by chance | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | quit | past | That | long property | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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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