The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 167
That king am I Who, less than thou by lineage, but in mind Loftier, attained that crown thou could’st not keep; That king, who, breaking through a jesting pact As eagles through a mist, by doom deserved Requited rebels proved.
Who acts: king, thou, Requited rebels · What happens: be, attain, not keep, break, jest, deserve · To what, where: crown, mind, jesting pact
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, thou, Requited rebels), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 less | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 less | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 less | nsubj |
| 5 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 less | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 less | punct |
| 7 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 9 thou | case |
| 9 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 less | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 lineage | case |
| 11 | lineage | lineage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 less | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 attained | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 attained | cc |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mind | case |
| 15 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attained | obl |
| 16 | Loftier | Loftier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mind | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mind | punct |
| 18 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 less | conj |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 crown | det |
| 20 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attained | obj |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 keep | nsubj |
| 22 | could’st | could'st | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 keep | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 keep | advmod |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 crown | acl:relcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 king | punct |
| 26 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 king | det |
| 27 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 attained | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 breaking | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 breaking | nsubj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 breaking | punct |
| 31 | breaking | break | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 king | acl |
| 32 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 pact | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 pact | det |
| 34 | jesting | jest | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 pact | amod |
| 35 | pact | pact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 breaking | obl |
| 36 | As | as | ADP | _ | 37 eagles | case |
| 37 | eagles | eagle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 breaking | obl |
| 38 | through | through | ADP | _ | 40 mist | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 mist | det |
| 40 | mist | mist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 breaking | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 deserved | punct |
| 42 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 doom | case |
| 43 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 deserved | obl |
| 44 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 attained | conj |
| 45 | Requited | requite | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 rebels | amod |
| 46 | rebels | rebel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 proved | nsubj |
| 47 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 deserved | ccomp |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 less | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that king | than thou; by lineage; I nsubj; Who nsubj; less property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | attain | past | that king not said here | that crown | mind | that king obl | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||
| 3 | not keep | present | thou | that crown not said here | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | that king | a jesting pact | as eagles; through a mist | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through pact=Location | |||
| 5 | jest speech: other | gerund | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | deserve | past | that king not said here | by doom | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | requite | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 8 | prove | past | Requited rebels | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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