The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 4, sentence 38
‘In ten years bring me back your trophied spoils From every land and clime; for mine they are!
Who acts: you, brothers · What happens: bring back, trophy, spoil, be · To what, where: me, land
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, brothers), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
| 2 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 years | case |
| 3 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 years | nummod |
| 4 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bring | obl |
| 5 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bring | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADP | _ | 5 bring | compound:prt |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 spoils | nmod:poss |
| 9 | trophied | trophy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 spoils | nsubj |
| 10 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bring | parataxis |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 13 land | case |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 land | det |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spoils | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 clime | cc |
| 15 | clime | clime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 land | conj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 mine | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 mine | case |
| 18 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 bring | parataxis |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 mine | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 mine | cop |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring back | imperative | you not said here | me | year | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | |||
| 2 | trophy | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | spoil | present | every land and clime | your nmod:poss | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | brothers = brother | for mine | tree rules |
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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