The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 50
Without one blow To cross your Shenan, reach your Cruachan, There make your terms secure, the spoil retained, The exiles sent to judgment!
Who acts: you, your · What happens: cross, reach, make, retain, send, term · To what, where: Shenan, Cruachan, terms, spoil, exiles, judgment
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 (you, your), 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 | Without | without | ADP | _ | 3 blow | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 blow | nummod |
| 3 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obl |
| 4 | To | to | PART | _ | 5 cross | mark |
| 5 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reach | advcl |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 Shenan | nmod:poss |
| 7 | Shenan | Shenan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cross | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 reach | punct |
| 9 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Cruachan | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Cruachan | Cruachan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 make | expl |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 reach | conj |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 terms | nmod:poss |
| 16 | terms | term | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 make | obj |
| 17 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 make | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 spoil | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 spoil | det |
| 20 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 reach | obl |
| 21 | retained | retain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 spoil | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 exiles | punct |
| 23 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 exiles | det |
| 24 | exiles | exile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 spoil | conj |
| 25 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 exiles | acl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 judgment | case |
| 27 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sent | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | to-infinitive | you not said here | your Shenan | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shenan=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reach | imperative | you not said here | your Cruachan | without one blow; the spoil and the exiles obl | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent cruachan=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | infinitive | you not said here | your terms | there | secure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset term=Product | ||
| 4 | retain | participle | the spoil and the exiles not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | send | participle | the exiles not said here | judgment | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to judgment=Destination | ||||
| 6 | term | your | nom term «communication 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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