The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 16
Thou rul’st this land to-day: in years to be Who best deserves shall wield her sovereignty.’
Who acts: Thou, years · What happens: rul'st, be, wield · To what, where: land, sovereignty
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, years), 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 rul’st | nsubj |
| 2 | rul’st | rul'st | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 land | det |
| 4 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rul’st | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 to | punct |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rul’st | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 years | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 years | case |
| 10 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 wield | nsubj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 deserves | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 deserves | cop |
| 13 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 deserves | nsubj |
| 14 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 15 deserves | advmod |
| 15 | deserves | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 years | advcl |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 wield | aux |
| 17 | wield | wield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 rul’st | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sovereignty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sovereignty | sovereignty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wield | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rul’st | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 rul’st | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rul'st | past | Thou | this land | day | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | to-infinitive | years | deserve, well property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wield | shall | years | child's sovereignty | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereignty=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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