The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 110
Say, call ye warriors knaves that creep unseen, While true men sleep, up inlet dim, and fiord, Filching the land they proved not with their sword?’
Who acts: you, knaves, true men, men · What happens: say, call, creep, sleep, filch, not prove · To what, where: ye, land · 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 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, knaves, true men, men), 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 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 call | punct |
| 3 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | conj |
| 4 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 call | obj |
| 5 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | obj |
| 6 | knaves | knave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 call | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 creep | nsubj |
| 8 | creep | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 knaves | acl:relcl |
| 9 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 creep | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sleep | punct |
| 11 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 sleep | mark |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 men | amod |
| 13 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 sleep | nsubj |
| 14 | sleep | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Say | parataxis |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dim | punct |
| 16 | up | up | ADV | _ | 18 dim | advmod |
| 17 | inlet | inlet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dim | compound |
| 18 | dim | dim | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sleep | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 fiord | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fiord | cc |
| 21 | fiord | fiord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dim | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 Filching | punct |
| 23 | Filching | filch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 sleep | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 land | det |
| 25 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Filching | obj |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 proved | nsubj |
| 27 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 land | acl:relcl |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 proved | advmod |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sword | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 proved | obl |
| 32 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
| 33 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | call | infinitive | you not said here | ye | warriors obj; knaves xcomp | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme warrior=Result | |||
| 3 | creep | present | knaves | unseen property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | sleep | present | true men | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | filch | gerund | true men not said here | the land | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not prove | past | men = man | the land not said here | with men's sword | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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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