The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 50

Him Conor answered: ‘Cathbad! oath I make By all those regions sacred and unseen, By all the Powers that in them sleep or wake, The Gods that are, or shall be, or have been, This hand on Usnach’s sons shall work no wrong; Captive, not dead, I wish them--nor for long.’

Who acts: Justice, Cathbad oath, hand, I · What happens: answer, make, sleep, wake, be, work · To what, where: Powers, wrong, regions

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 (Justice, Cathbad oath, hand, I), 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	Him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answered	nsubj
2	Conor	Conor	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 answered	nsubj
3	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 Cathbad	punct
6	Cathbad	Cathbad	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 oath	compound
7	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 Cathbad	punct
8	oath	oath	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 make	nsubj
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 make	nsubj
10	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 answered	parataxis
11	By	by	ADP	_	14 regions	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 regions	det:predet
13	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	14 regions	det
14	regions	region	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obl
15	sacred	sacred	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 regions	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 unseen	cc
17	unseen	unseen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 sacred	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 Powers	punct
19	By	by	ADP	_	22 Powers	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 Powers	det:predet
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Powers	det
22	Powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 make	obl
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 sleep	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 them	case
25	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sleep	obl
26	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Powers	acl:relcl
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 wake	cc
28	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 sleep	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Gods	punct
30	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Gods	det
31	Gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 Powers	conj
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	37 be	obj
33	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 be	cop
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 be	punct
35	or	or	CCONJ	_	37 be	cc
36	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 be	aux
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 Gods	acl:relcl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 been	punct
39	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 been	cc
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 been	aux
41	been	be	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	50 work	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 work	punct
43	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	44 hand	det
44	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 work	nsubj
45	on	on	ADP	_	48 sons	case
46	Usnach	Usnach	PROPN	Number=Sing	48 sons	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 Usnach	case
48	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 hand	nmod
49	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 work	aux
50	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 make	parataxis
51	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	52 wrong	det
52	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 work	obj
53	;	;	PUNCT	_	54 Captive	punct
54	Captive	captive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 make	parataxis
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 dead	punct
56	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	57 dead	advmod
57	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 Captive	conj
58	,	,	PUNCT	_	60 wish	punct
59	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 wish	nsubj
60	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	54 Captive	parataxis
61	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 wish	iobj
62	--	--	PUNCT	_	65 long	punct
63	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	65 long	cc
64	for	for	ADP	_	65 long	case
65	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 answered	conj
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct
67	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Justice			Conor nsubj	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	Cathbad oath			by all regions; by all Powers and the Gods; I nsubj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	sleep	present		all Powers and the Gods		in regions = region	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Value in they=Location
4	wake	present					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	be	present · perfect	this hand on Usnach's sons not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	work	shall	this hand on Usnach's sons	no wrong			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wrong=Material
7	wish	present	I		regions = region		vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 50