The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

I trust that the poets of a later day will illustrate it more worthily, and do for Irish history what the lofty and stainless poetry of Scott did for that of his country.

Who acts: I, poets, lofty poetry · What happens: trust, illustrate, do · To what, where: volume, Irish history

This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, poets, lofty poetry), 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	2 trust	nsubj
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 illustrate	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 poets	det
5	poets	poet	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 illustrate	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	later	late	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 day	amod
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 poets	nmod
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 illustrate	aux
11	illustrate	illustrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 trust	ccomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 illustrate	obj
13	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	14 worthily	advmod
14	worthily	worthily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 illustrate	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 do	cc
17	do	do	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 trust	conj
18	for	for	ADP	_	20 history	case
19	Irish	Irish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 history	amod
20	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 do	obl
21	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 did	obj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 poetry	det
23	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 poetry	amod
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stainless	cc
25	stainless	stainless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 lofty	conj
26	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 did	nsubj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Scott	case
28	Scott	Scott	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 poetry	nmod
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 history	acl:relcl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 did	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 country	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 country	nmod:poss
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 that	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 trust	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trust	present	I			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	illustrate	future	the poets of a later day	volume	worthily property	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination
3	do	infinitive	I not said here		for Irish history	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past	the lofty poetry of Scott	Irish history	for Irish history	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 45

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Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 45