The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 69
I shall stand that hour Your King Elect; not Ailill’s choice, but yours; The Battle-King; for well ye know that I, None else, have skill to range the battle-field, And roll the thunders forth of genuine war.
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: stand, know, have, range, roll · To what, where: King, skill, battle field, thunders
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 (I, ye), 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 stand | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | aux |
| 3 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hour | det |
| 5 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obj |
| 6 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 King | nmod:poss |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 8 | Elect | Elect | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 King | flat |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 choice | punct |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 choice | advmod |
| 11 | Ailill | Ailill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 choice | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 Ailill | case |
| 13 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 yours | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 yours | cc |
| 16 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 stand | conj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 King | punct |
| 18 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 19 | Battle | Battle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 King | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Battle | punct |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 know | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 know | mark |
| 24 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 know | advmod |
| 25 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 know | nsubj |
| 26 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | parataxis |
| 27 | that | that | ADP | _ | 28 I | case |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 know | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
| 30 | None | None | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 stand | obl |
| 31 | else | else | ADV | _ | 30 None | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 have | punct |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 stand | conj |
| 34 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 have | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 range | mark |
| 36 | range | range | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 skill | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 field | det |
| 38 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 field | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 38 battle | punct |
| 40 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 range | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 roll | punct |
| 42 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 roll | cc |
| 43 | roll | roll | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stand | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 thunders | det |
| 45 | thunders | thunder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 roll | obj |
| 46 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 43 roll | advmod |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 war | case |
| 48 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 war | amod |
| 49 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 roll | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | shall | I | Your King | hour | the Battle King obl; None obl; Ailill's choice conj; yours conj | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||
| 2 | know | present | ye | that I; well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | present | I not said here | skill | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skill=Patient | ||||
| 4 | range | to-infinitive | I not said here | the battle field | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme | ||||
| 5 | roll | infinitive | I not said here | the thunders | of genuine war; forth property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent thunder=Theme of war=Trajectory |
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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