The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 97
I rather choose With mine own hand to avenge eretime my death Than trust that task to others!’
Who acts: I, my · What happens: choose, avenge, die · To what, where: eretime
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 (I, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 2 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 3 choose | advmod |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | With | with | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 5 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nsubj |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hand | amod |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 avenge | mark |
| 9 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 choose | xcomp |
| 10 | eretime | eretime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avenge | obj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 death | nmod:poss |
| 12 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avenge | obj |
| 13 | Than | than | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 trust | det |
| 14 | trust | trust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 avenge | obl |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 task | det |
| 16 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trust | appos |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 others | case |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 task | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | I | with own hand mine | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | avenge | to-infinitive | I not said here | eretime | than trust obl; my death obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: 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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