The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 44
Now therefore be thy love and fealty proved: To Alba speed: bring home that exiled Three, Thyself their surety, pledge, and guarantee.
Who acts: love, home · What happens: be, prove, bring, exile · To what, where: love, home, Three
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 (love, home), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 proved | advmod |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 5 love | advmod |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 love | cop |
| 4 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 love | nmod:poss |
| 5 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 fealty | cc |
| 7 | fealty | fealty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | conj |
| 8 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 speed | punct |
| 10 | To | to | ADP | _ | 12 speed | case |
| 11 | Alba | Alba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 speed | compound |
| 12 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 proved | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 bring | punct |
| 14 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 proved | ccomp |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 exiled | nsubj |
| 17 | exiled | exile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 home | acl:relcl |
| 18 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 exiled | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Thyself | punct |
| 20 | Thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 14 bring | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 surety | nmod:poss |
| 22 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 pledge | punct |
| 24 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 surety | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 guarantee | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 guarantee | cc |
| 27 | guarantee | guarantee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bring | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 proved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | infinitive | thy love and fealty | thy nmod:poss; fealty conj; therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | prove | past | thy love and fealty | now | to Alba speed | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to speed=Experiencer clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | bring | infinitive | thy love and fealty not said here | home | Thyself conj; sons's surety and pledge obj; guarantee parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent home=Destination surety=Theme | |||
| 4 | exile | past | home | Three | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Theme |
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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