The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 8, sentence 80
My Lord is naught; Nor will he trust his children to thy hand, Lest thou should’st slay them.’
Who acts: Nor, thou · What happens: be, trust, slay · To what, where: naught, children, hand, hands
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 (Nor, thou), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 2 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 naught | compound |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 naught | cop |
| 4 | naught | naught | PRON | PronType=Neg | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 trust | punct |
| 6 | Nor | Nor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 trust | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 trust | aux |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 trust | nsubj |
| 9 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 naught | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 children | nmod:poss |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 trust | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 hand | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trust | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 slay | punct |
| 16 | Lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 19 slay | mark |
| 17 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 slay | nsubj |
| 18 | should’st | should'st | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 slay | nsubj |
| 19 | slay | slay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 trust | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 slay | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 naught | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 naught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | naught | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | trust | future | Nor | Nor's children | thy hand | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent child=Theme to hand=Recipient | |||
| 3 | slay | infinitive | thou | hands = hand | should’st nsubj | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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