The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 42
‘I doubted Conor’s faith: if mine the fault Harbouring distrust, King Conor thus will speak: “Abide with me three months: partake my salt; Drink of my cup; my bread securely break!”
Who acts: I, mine, fault, bread · What happens: doubt, fault, harbour, speak, abide, partake · To what, where: faith, distrust, salt · Speech: someone speaks here
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, mine, fault, bread), 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 | _ | 3 doubted | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 doubted | nsubj |
| 3 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | advcl |
| 4 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 faith | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Conor | case |
| 6 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubted | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 fault | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 fault | mark |
| 9 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fault | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fault | det |
| 11 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubted | ccomp |
| 12 | Harbouring | harbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 fault | acl |
| 13 | distrust | distrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Harbouring | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 King | punct |
| 15 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 fault | appos |
| 16 | Conor | Conor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 King | flat |
| 17 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 19 speak | advmod |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | aux |
| 19 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Abide | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Abide | punct |
| 22 | Abide | abide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 Abide | obl |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 months | nummod |
| 26 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Abide | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 partake | punct |
| 28 | partake | partake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 Abide | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 salt | nmod:poss |
| 30 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 partake | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 Drink | punct |
| 32 | Drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 partake | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cup | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 cup | nmod:poss |
| 35 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Drink | nmod |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 break | punct |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 bread | nmod:poss |
| 38 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 break | nsubj |
| 39 | securely | securely | ADV | _ | 40 break | advmod |
| 40 | break | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 speak | parataxis |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 speak | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | past | I | Conor's faith | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fault a condition, not said to happen | mine | King appos | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | harbour | gerund | the fault not said here | distrust | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | future | thus property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | abide in a quote | infinitive | month | with me | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | partake in a quote | infinitive | my salt | Drink of my cup obl | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | break in a quote | present | my bread | securely property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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