The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 17
‘How say ye, Lords, for leave ye have to speak; That which ye think, reveal: all doubts repel; Find ye in Uladh aught decayed or weak, Amiss, or lacking?
Who acts: ye, That, doubts · What happens: say, have, speak, think, reveal, repel · To what, where: Lords, ye, aught · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ye, That, doubts), 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 | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 say | advmod |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 say | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Lords | punct |
| 6 | Lords | Lord | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 say | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 leave | case |
| 9 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obl |
| 10 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 speak | mark |
| 13 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 have | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 think | punct |
| 15 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 think | nsubj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 think | nsubj |
| 17 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 think | nsubj |
| 18 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 say | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 reveal | punct |
| 20 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | conj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 repel | punct |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 doubts | det |
| 23 | doubts | doubt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 repel | nsubj |
| 24 | repel | repel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 reveal | advcl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Find | punct |
| 26 | Find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 think | conj |
| 27 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 Find | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 aught | case |
| 29 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 aught | compound |
| 30 | aught | aught | PRON | PronType=Ind | 31 decayed | obl |
| 31 | decayed | decay | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 Find | ccomp |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 weak | cc |
| 33 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 decayed | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 Amiss | punct |
| 35 | Amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 weak | conj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 lacking | punct |
| 37 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 38 lacking | cc |
| 38 | lacking | lack | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 think | advcl |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | ye | Lords | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent lord=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have | present | ye | for leave | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | ye not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | infinitive | That | which nsubj; ye nsubj | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | reveal | infinitive | That not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | repel | present | all doubts | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | find | infinitive | That not said here | ye | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ye=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 8 | decay | past | aught | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 9 | lack | gerund | That not said here | 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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