The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 34
I give you, brothers mine, And yet that counsel true ye will not take; No further t’wards Emania ride this hour; Seek we, not far it stands, Cuchullain’s tower!
Who acts: I, ye, further t’wards, counsel · What happens: give, not take, ride, seek, not stand · To what, where: brothers, you, we, tower
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, further t’wards, counsel), 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 | _ | 22 ride | punct |
| 18 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 t’wards | det |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 t’wards | amod |
| 20 | t’wards | t'ward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ride | nsubj |
| 21 | Emania | Emania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 t’wards | appos |
| 22 | ride | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hour | det |
| 24 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ride | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 Seek | punct |
| 26 | Seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 give | conj |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 Seek | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 stands | punct |
| 29 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 32 stands | advmod |
| 30 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 stands | advmod |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 stands | nsubj |
| 32 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Seek | parataxis |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 tower | punct |
| 34 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 tower | nmod:poss |
| 35 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 34 Cuchullain | case |
| 36 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 stands | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | 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 | ride | present | no further t’wards | hour | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | seek | infinitive | I not said here | we | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not stand | present | counsel | Cuchullain's tower | far property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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