The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 49
‘But thou, the sons of Usnach send to me: What cause I have to trust that race thou knowest: Be sure thy feast hold out two days or three: My love thenceforth thou hast where’er thou goest.’
Who acts: thou, I, feast, My · What happens: send, cause, have, trust, know, be · To what, where: love, me, race, where’er
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 (thou, I, feast, My), 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 | _ | 9 send | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 send | cc |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 send | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sons | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sons | det |
| 6 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 send | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Usnach | case |
| 8 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sons | nmod |
| 9 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 me | case |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 send | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 cause | punct |
| 13 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 cause | nsubj |
| 14 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 send | advcl |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 have | nsubj |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cause | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 trust | mark |
| 18 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 have | xcomp |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 race | det |
| 20 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 trust | obj |
| 21 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 knowest | nsubj |
| 22 | knowest | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 race | acl:relcl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 sure | punct |
| 24 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sure | cop |
| 25 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 send | advcl |
| 26 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 feast | nmod:poss |
| 27 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hold | nsubj |
| 28 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 sure | ccomp |
| 29 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 hold | compound:prt |
| 30 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 days | nummod |
| 31 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 hold | obj |
| 32 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 three | cc |
| 33 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 days | conj |
| 34 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 send | punct |
| 35 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 love | nmod:poss |
| 36 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 send | obj |
| 37 | thenceforth | thenceforth | ADV | _ | 39 hast | advmod |
| 38 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 39 hast | nsubj |
| 39 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 send | advcl |
| 40 | where’er | where'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hast | obj |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 goest | nsubj |
| 42 | goest | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 where’er | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 send | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | present | thou | My love | me | the sons of Usnach nsubj | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent love=Theme to i=Destination | ||
| 2 | cause | present | What nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | present | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | trust | to-infinitive | I not said here | that race | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Theme | ||||
| 5 | know | present | thou | that race not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer race=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is | infinitive | thou not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | hold out | infinitive | thy feast | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | have | present | thou | where’er | thenceforth property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent where'er=Patient | |||
| 9 | go | present | thou | where’er not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location where'er=Theme | ||||
| 10 | love | My | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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