The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 57
‘These four--thy children--with me I will take To please my father’s eye; he loves them well: Thou too, whene’er thy leisure serves, shalt make Thither thy journey.’
Who acts: I, father, whene’er, thy · What happens: take, please, love, serve, make, journey · To what, where: eye, eyes, journey, four children
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 (I, father, whene’er, thy), 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 children | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 four | det |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 children | nummod |
| 4 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 6 children | punct |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 children | nmod:poss |
| 6 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 9 me | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 me | case |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 children | nmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 take | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 take | aux |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 me | parataxis |
| 13 | To | to | PART | _ | 14 please | mark |
| 14 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 take | advcl |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 eye | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 please | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 loves | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loves | nsubj |
| 21 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 children | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 loves | obj |
| 23 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 loves | advmod |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 Thou | punct |
| 25 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 loves | conj |
| 26 | too | too | ADV | _ | 21 loves | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 serves | punct |
| 28 | whene’er | whene'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 serves | nsubj |
| 29 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 leisure | nmod:poss |
| 30 | leisure | leisure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 serves | nsubj |
| 31 | serves | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 loves | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 33 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 34 make | aux |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 serves | ccomp |
| 35 | Thither | thither | ADV | _ | 37 journey | advmod |
| 36 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 37 journey | nmod:poss |
| 37 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 make | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
| 39 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 34 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | please | to-infinitive | I not said here | my father's eye | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | love | present | father | eyes = eye | Thou conj; well property | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | serve | present | whene’er | thy leisure nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | shall | whene’er not said here | thy journey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | ||||
| 7 | journey | thy | nom journey «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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