The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 69
Thou too shalt feel the weight of Druid power: From age to age thy penance ne’er shall cease: Our doom, though long it lasts, shall end in peace.’
Who acts: Thou, age, Our · What happens: feel, age, cease, last, end, doom · To what, where: weight, penance ne’er, peace
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, age, Our), 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 | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 2 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 3 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 weight | det |
| 6 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 power | case |
| 8 | Druid | Druid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 power | compound |
| 9 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weight | nmod |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 age | punct |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 12 age | case |
| 12 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 cease | nsubj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 age | mark |
| 14 | age | age | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 age | acl |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 ne’er | nmod:poss |
| 16 | penance | penance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ne’er | compound |
| 17 | ne’er | ne'er | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 age | obj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 cease | aux |
| 19 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 doom | punct |
| 21 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 doom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | doom | doom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 long | punct |
| 24 | though | though | ADV | _ | 25 long | advmod |
| 25 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | advmod |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 lasts | nsubj |
| 27 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 long | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 end | punct |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 end | aux |
| 30 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | parataxis |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 peace | case |
| 32 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 end | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | shall | Thou | the weight of Druid power | Our doom parataxis; long property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weight=Theme | |||
| 2 | age | to-infinitive | age not said here | thy penance ne’er | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent ne'er=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cease | shall | age | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | last | present | age | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | end | shall | peace | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | doom | Our | nom doom «event 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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