The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
‘The choice is thine, not his; and this that choice; For a feast’s sake to cast from thee thy charge, Subject and servile to a courtier’s voice; Or spurn that feast, and walk, a soul at large.’
Who acts: choice, thy · What happens: not be, cast, spurn, walk, charge · To what, where: lord, charge, thee, feast, soul, large
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 (choice, thy), 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 choice | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 choice | det |
| 3 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 his | cop |
| 5 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 his | nmod:poss |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 his | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 his | advmod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 choice | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 choice | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 choice | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 choice | det |
| 12 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 choice | det |
| 13 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choice | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 sake | punct |
| 15 | For | for | ADP | _ | 19 sake | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 feast | det |
| 17 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sake | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 feast | case |
| 19 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choice | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 cast | mark |
| 21 | cast | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sake | acl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 cast | obl |
| 24 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 25 charge | nmod:poss |
| 25 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cast | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Subject | punct |
| 27 | Subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 charge | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 servile | cc |
| 29 | servile | servile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 charge | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 voice | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 courtier | det |
| 32 | courtier | courtier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 voice | nmod:poss |
| 33 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 32 courtier | case |
| 34 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cast | obl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 spurn | punct |
| 36 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 spurn | cc |
| 37 | spurn | spurn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 choice | parataxis |
| 38 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 feast | det |
| 39 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spurn | obj |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 walk | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 walk | cc |
| 42 | walk | walk | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 spurn | conj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 soul | punct |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 soul | det |
| 45 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 walk | obl |
| 46 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 large | case |
| 47 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 walk | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 choice | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 choice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | the choice and this choice and a feast's sake not said here | lord | thine nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cast | to-infinitive | thy charge and Subject and servile | thee | to a courtier's voice | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent charge=Theme from thou=Initial_Location to voice=Destination | |||
| 3 | spurn | infinitive | that feast | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | walk | infinitive | a soul | large | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at large=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | charge | thy | nom charge «act 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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