The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 45

‘But with them plight this covenant beside, That instant when they tread my kingdom’s strand To me they speed; with no man else abide; Favour or feast accept at no man’s hand: My bread must be the first those exiles break; All griefs thenceforth forgotten for its sake.

Who acts: sons, man, Favour, bread, exiles, griefs · What happens: plight, tread, speed, abide, accept, be · To what, where: covenant, instant, strand, me, hand

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 (sons, man, Favour, bread), 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 plight	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 plight	cc
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 plight	obl
5	plight	plight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 covenant	det
7	covenant	covenant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plight	obj
8	beside	beside	ADP	_	11 instant	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 instant	punct
10	That	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 instant	det
11	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 covenant	nmod
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tread	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tread	nsubj
14	tread	tread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plight	advcl
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 kingdom	nmod:poss
16	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strand	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 kingdom	case
18	strand	strand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tread	obj
19	To	to	ADP	_	20 me	case
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 tread	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 speed	nsubj
22	speed	speed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tread	conj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 abide	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 man	case
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 man	det
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 abide	nsubj
27	else	else	ADV	_	26 man	advmod
28	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tread	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 accept	punct
30	Favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 accept	nsubj
31	or	or	CCONJ	_	32 feast	cc
32	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Favour	conj
33	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plight	conj
34	at	at	ADP	_	38 hand	case
35	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 hand	nmod:poss
37	’s	's	PART	_	36 man	case
38	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 accept	obl
39	:	:	PUNCT	_	45 first	punct
40	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 bread	nmod:poss
41	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 first	nsubj
42	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 first	aux
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	45 first	cop
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 first	det
45	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	33 accept	parataxis
46	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 exiles	det
47	exiles	exile	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 break	nsubj
48	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 first	acl:relcl
49	;	;	PUNCT	_	53 forgotten	punct
50	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 griefs	det
51	griefs	grief	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 forgotten	nsubj
52	thenceforth	thenceforth	ADV	_	53 forgotten	advmod
53	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 plight	conj
54	for	for	ADP	_	56 sake	case
55	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	56 sake	nmod:poss
56	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 forgotten	obl
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 plight	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	plight	present		this covenant		that instant	with sons = son	tree rules
2	tread	present	sons = son	my kingdom's strand	me			vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location strand=Theme
3	speed	present	sons = son					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	abide	infinitive	no man					tree rules
5	accept	present	Favour or feast			no man's hand		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	must	My bread				first property	tree rules
7	break	present	that exiles					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
8	forget	participle	all griefs				for grief's sake; thenceforth property	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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 45