The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 75
Thou man that mak’st far down yon cave of death, Be sure thou dig it deep, and dig it wide!
Who acts: man, thou · What happens: mak'st, be, dig · To what, where: yon cave, cave, man
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 (man, thou), 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 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 man | nsubj |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 mak’st | nsubj |
| 4 | mak’st | mak'st | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 down | advmod |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 mak’st | advmod |
| 7 | yon | yon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cave | compound |
| 8 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mak’st | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cave | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 sure | punct |
| 12 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sure | cop |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mak’st | parataxis |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 dig | nsubj |
| 15 | dig | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 dig | obj |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 dig | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 dig | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 dig | cc |
| 20 | dig | dig | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 dig | conj |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dig | obj |
| 22 | wide | wide | ADV | _ | 20 dig | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mak'st | present | man Thou | yon cave of death | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | infinitive | sure property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | dig | present | thou | cave | deep property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | dig | infinitive | thou not said here | cave | wide property | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=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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