The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 68
‘Bad deed afflicting babes that harmed thee not; Bad deed, and to thyself an evil dower: Disastrous more than ours shall be thy lot!
Who acts: afflicting babes, evil dower · What happens: afflict, not harm, be · To what, where: thee, lot
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 (afflicting babes, evil dower), 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 | _ | 7 harmed | punct |
| 2 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 deed | amod |
| 3 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 afflicting | compound |
| 4 | afflicting | afflict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 babes | amod |
| 5 | babes | babe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 harmed | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 harmed | nsubj |
| 7 | harmed | harm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 harmed | obj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 harmed | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 deed | punct |
| 11 | Bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 deed | amod |
| 12 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harmed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 lot | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 lot | cc |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 thyself | case |
| 16 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 28 lot | obl |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dower | det |
| 18 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dower | amod |
| 19 | dower | dower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lot | nsubj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 Disastrous | punct |
| 21 | Disastrous | disastrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 dower | amod |
| 22 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 Disastrous | conj |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 ours | case |
| 24 | ours | our | PRON | Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 more | obl |
| 25 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lot | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 lot | cop |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 lot | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harmed | obl |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 harmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict | gerund | Bad deed compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | not harm | past | afflicting babes | thee | Bad deed obl; that nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thou=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | is a | shall | a evil dower | thy lot | to thyself; thy nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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