The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 45
If e’er from thee Or child or stripling, help or love I gat; My craft has futile proved: my legions flee; Yet magic power, we know, can level flat All power of man in one brief moment’s space: Slay me, or spare my kingdom this disgrace!’
Who acts: e’er, craft, legions, we, magic power, My · What happens: gat, have, prove, flee, know, level · To what, where: flat power, me, kingdom
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 (e’er, craft, legions, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 gat | mark |
| 2 | e’er | e'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gat | nsubj |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 thee | case |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 e’er | nmod |
| 5 | Or | or | CCONJ | _ | 6 child | cc |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e’er | conj |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 stripling | cc |
| 8 | stripling | stripling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e’er | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 help | punct |
| 10 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e’er | conj |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 love | cc |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 e’er | conj |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 gat | nsubj |
| 14 | gat | gat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 has | advcl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 gat | punct |
| 16 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 craft | nmod:poss |
| 17 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | futile | futile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 has | xcomp |
| 20 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 futile | xcomp |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 flee | punct |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 legions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | legions | legion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flee | nsubj |
| 24 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 has | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 level | punct |
| 26 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 34 level | cc |
| 27 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 power | amod |
| 28 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 level | nsubj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 know | nsubj |
| 31 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 power | parataxis |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 know | punct |
| 33 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 level | aux |
| 34 | level | level | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 has | parataxis |
| 35 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 power | amod |
| 36 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 power | det |
| 37 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 level | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 power | nmod |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 space | case |
| 41 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 43 moment | nummod |
| 42 | brief | brief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 moment | amod |
| 43 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 space | nmod:poss |
| 44 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 43 moment | case |
| 45 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 man | nmod |
| 46 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 47 Slay | punct |
| 47 | Slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 level | conj |
| 48 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 Slay | obj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 spare | punct |
| 50 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 51 spare | cc |
| 51 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 Slay | conj |
| 52 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 53 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 spare | obj |
| 54 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 55 disgrace | det |
| 55 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 spare | obj |
| 56 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 51 spare | punct |
| 57 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 Slay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gat a condition, not said to happen | present | e’er from thee or child or stripling and help or love | I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | present | My craft | futile property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | prove | participle | My craft not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | flee | present | my legions | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | know | present | we | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | level | can | magic power | all flat power of man in one brief moment's space | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 7 | slay | infinitive | magic power not said here | me | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | ||||
| 8 | spare | infinitive | magic power not said here | my kingdom | this disgrace obj | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent kingdom=Recipient disgrace=Asset | |||
| 9 | craft | My | nom craft «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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