The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 47
‘Not less, great king, this deed I dare not do, For Justice keeps an axe, and keen its edge, In worlds unseen; and they their sin shall rue Who spill the righteous blood, or break the pledge.
Who acts: great king, Justice, Fate · What happens: do, keep, keen, rue, spill, break · To what, where: axe, edge, worlds, righteous blood, pledge
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 (great king, Justice, Fate), 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 | _ | 6 king | punct |
| 2 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 less | advmod |
| 3 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 great | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 less | punct |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 king | amod |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 deed | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 deed | det |
| 9 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 king | conj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 11 | dare | dare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 dare | advmod |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 keeps | punct |
| 15 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeps | mark |
| 16 | Justice | Justice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 axe | det |
| 19 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 keeps | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 keen | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 keen | cc |
| 22 | keen | keen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 do | conj |
| 23 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 edge | nmod:poss |
| 24 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 keen | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 worlds | punct |
| 26 | In | in | ADP | _ | 27 worlds | case |
| 27 | worlds | world | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 keen | obl |
| 28 | unseen | unseen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 worlds | amod |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 rue | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 rue | cc |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 rue | nsubj |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 sin | nmod:poss |
| 33 | sin | sin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rue | nsubj |
| 34 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 rue | aux |
| 35 | rue | rue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 do | parataxis |
| 36 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 spill | nsubj |
| 37 | spill | spill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 rue | ccomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 blood | det |
| 39 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 blood | amod |
| 40 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 spill | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 break | punct |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 43 break | cc |
| 43 | break | break | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 rue | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 pledge | det |
| 45 | pledge | pledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 break | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | great king and this deed | I nsubj | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | keep | present | Justice | a axe | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keen | infinitive | great king and this deed not said here | axe's edge | worlds | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Topic | |||
| 4 | rue | shall | Fate | Fate's sin nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | spill | present | the righteous blood | Who nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | ||||
| 6 | break | infinitive | Fate not said here | the pledge | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pledge=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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