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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

punctdetnummodpunctnmod:posspunctcasenmodnsubjauxparataxismarkadvclnmod:possnmod:posscaseobjpunctnsubjparataxisobjadvmodpunctconjadvmodpunctnsubjnmod:possnsubjconjpunctauxccompadvmodnmod:possobjpunctpunctroot‘PUNCTTheseDETfourNUM--PUNCTthyPRONchildrenNOUN--PUNCTwithADPmePRONIPRONwillAUXtakeVERBToPARTpleaseVERBmyPRONfatherNOUN’sPARTeyeNOUN;PUNCThePRONlovesVERBthemPRONwellADV:PUNCTThouPRONtooADV,PUNCTwhene’erNOUNthyPRONleisureNOUNservesVERB,PUNCTshaltAUXmakeVERBThitherADVthyPRONjourneyNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1‘'PUNCT_6 childrenpunct
2ThesethisDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem3 fourdet
3fourfourNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card6 childrennummod
4----PUNCT_6 childrenpunct
5thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch6 childrennmod:poss
6childrenchildNOUNNumber=Plurrootroot
7----PUNCT_9 mepunct
8withwithADP_9 mecase
9meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs6 childrennmod
10IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs12 takensubj
11willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin12 takeaux
12taketakeVERBVerbForm=Inf9 meparataxis
13TotoPART_14 pleasemark
14pleasepleaseVERBVerbForm=Inf12 takeadvcl
15mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 fathernmod:poss
16fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing18 eyenmod:poss
17’s'sPART_16 fathercase
18eyeeyeNOUNNumber=Sing14 pleaseobj
19;;PUNCT_21 lovespunct
20hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs21 lovesnsubj
21lovesloveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 childrenparataxis
22themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 lovesobj
23wellwellADVDegree=Pos21 lovesadvmod
24::PUNCT_25 Thoupunct
25ThouthouPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch21 lovesconj
26tootooADV_21 lovesadvmod
27,,PUNCT_31 servespunct
28whene’erwhene'erNOUNNumber=Sing31 servesnsubj
29thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch30 leisurenmod:poss
30leisureleisureNOUNNumber=Sing31 servesnsubj
31servesserveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 lovesconj
32,,PUNCT_34 makepunct
33shaltshallAUXStyle=Arch VerbForm=Fin34 makeaux
34makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf31 servesccomp
35ThitherthitherADV_37 journeyadvmod
36thythyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch37 journeynmod:poss
37journeyjourneyNOUNNumber=Sing34 makeobj
38..PUNCT_34 makepunct
39’'PUNCT_34 makepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1takefutureIvn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2pleaseto-infinitiveI not said heremy father's eyevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer
3lovepresentfathereyes = eyeThou conj; well propertyvn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
4servepresentwhene’erthy leisure nsubjtree rules
5makeshallwhene’er not said herethy journeyvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product
7journeythynom 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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