The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 40
The hand that strikes in daylight I defy; If traitor’s knife attempts them, for that shame All Uladh’s race shall perish, save alone The stained, yet guiltless king on Uladh’s throne!’
Who acts: hand, I, knife, race, Uladh · What happens: strike, defy, attempt, perish, save, stain · To what, where: daylight, sons
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 (hand, I, knife, race), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hand | det |
| 2 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strikes | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 strikes | nsubj |
| 4 | strikes | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 daylight | case |
| 6 | daylight | daylight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strikes | obl |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 defy | nsubj |
| 8 | defy | defy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 daylight | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 attempts | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 attempts | mark |
| 11 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 knife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 traitor | case |
| 13 | knife | knife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attempts | nsubj |
| 14 | attempts | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strikes | parataxis |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 attempts | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 perish | punct |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 shame | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 shame | det |
| 19 | shame | shame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perish | obl |
| 20 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 Uladh | det |
| 21 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 race | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Uladh | case |
| 23 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perish | nsubj |
| 24 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 perish | aux |
| 25 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attempts | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 save | punct |
| 27 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 perish | conj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 27 save | advmod |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 stained | det |
| 30 | stained | stain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 save | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 king | punct |
| 32 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 34 king | cc |
| 33 | guiltless | guiltless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 king | amod |
| 34 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 strikes | parataxis |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 38 throne | case |
| 36 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 throne | nmod:poss |
| 37 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 36 Uladh | case |
| 38 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 king | nmod |
| 39 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 34 king | punct |
| 40 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 strikes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | present | the hand | daylight | that nsubj; guiltless king on Uladh's throne parataxis | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daylight=Location | |||
| 2 | defy | present | I | daylight not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attempt a condition, not said to happen | present | traitor's knife | sons = son | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | perish | shall | all Uladh's race | for that shame | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | save | infinitive | all Uladh's race not said here | alone property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | stain | participle | all Uladh's race not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | race | all Uladh | nom race «event intransitive»: 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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