The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 88

I reign no more; not less my name Would move in might before him like a sword Though all the hosts of Erin ’gainst him came!’

Who acts: I, name, hosts, my · What happens: reign, move, come, name · To what, where: more

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 (I, name, hosts, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 reign	nsubj
2	reign	reign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 more	det
4	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 reign	obj
5	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 move	punct
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 less	advmod
7	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 move	advmod
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 name	nmod:poss
9	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	nsubj
10	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 move	aux
11	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reign	conj
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 might	case
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 move	conj
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 move	obl
16	like	like	ADP	_	18 sword	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sword	det
18	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 move	obl
19	Though	though	SCONJ	_	28 came	mark
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 hosts	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 hosts	det
22	hosts	host	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 came	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 gainst	case
24	Erin	Erin	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 gainst	nmod:poss
25	’	's	PART	_	24 Erin	case
26	gainst	gainst	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hosts	nmod
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 gainst	obj
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 move	advcl
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 reign	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 reign	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reign	present	I	no more			tree rules
2	move	would	my name		before King	like a sword; less property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme before he=Trajectory
3	come	past	all hosts of Erin's gainst King				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	name		my				nom name «communication 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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 88

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 5, sentence 88