The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 50
Thou therefore make the lay, ere yet we flee From this our exile’s cradle, sweet as home!’
Who acts: Thou, we · What happens: make, flee · To what, where: lay, cradle
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou, we), 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 | 3 make | nsubj |
| 2 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 make | advmod |
| 3 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lay | det |
| 5 | lay | lay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 make | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ere | punct |
| 7 | ere | ere | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | conj |
| 8 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 10 flee | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 flee | nsubj |
| 10 | flee | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 make | advcl |
| 11 | From | from | ADP | _ | 16 cradle | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 exile | det |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 exile | nmod:poss |
| 14 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cradle | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 exile | case |
| 16 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 flee | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sweet | punct |
| 18 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cradle | amod |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 home | case |
| 20 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sweet | obl |
| 21 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Thou | the lay and ere | therefore property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lay=Product | |||
| 2 | flee | present | we | our exile's cradle | yet | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from cradle=Initial_Location |
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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