The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 38
At once the Three replied, ‘Because we never feared and cannot fear To Eman on we will whate’er betide!’
Who acts: Three, we · What happens: reply, not fear, whate'er, betide · To what, where: Eman
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 (Three, we), 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 | At | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 replied | mark |
| 2 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 replied | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Three | det |
| 4 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 feared | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 8 | Because | because | SCONJ | _ | 11 feared | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 10 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 11 feared | advmod |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fear | cc |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fear | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 fear | advmod |
| 15 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feared | conj |
| 16 | To | to | ADP | _ | 17 Eman | case |
| 17 | Eman | Eman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 fear | obl |
| 18 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 21 whate’er | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 whate’er | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 whate’er | aux |
| 21 | whate’er | whate'er | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fear | advcl |
| 22 | betide | betide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 whate’er | xcomp |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 15 fear | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Three | once property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not fear | past | we | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | not fear | can | we not said here | Eman | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | whate'er | future | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | betide | infinitive | we not said here | 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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