The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
I give you, brothers mine; And yet that counsel true ye will not take; There shine the rocks of Rathlin!
Who acts: I, ye · What happens: give, not take, shine · To what, where: brothers, you, rocks
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, ye), 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 give | nsubj |
| 2 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 give | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 brothers | punct |
| 5 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 give | obl |
| 6 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brothers | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 true | punct |
| 8 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 true | cc |
| 9 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 true | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 true | nsubj |
| 11 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 true | nsubj |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 give | parataxis |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 take | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 take | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 take | advmod |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 true | parataxis |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 shine | punct |
| 18 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 shine | expl |
| 19 | shine | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 give | parataxis |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 rocks | det |
| 21 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 shine | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Rathlin | case |
| 23 | Rathlin | Rathlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 rocks | nmod |
| 24 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | brothers mine | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 2 | not take | future | ye | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shine | infinitive | the rocks of Rathlin | there | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rock=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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