--- title: Saltain made answer: ‘Be it! northward I: But Dectara, thy mother, a… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Saltain made answer: ‘Be it! northward I: But Dectara, thy mother, and my wife, Till thou art by my side I will not see; For dreadful are her eyes as death or fate; And many deem her mad.’ Who acts: Saltain, I, eyes, many. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saltain, I, eyes, many), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:11:114 # text = Saltain made answer: ‘Be it! northward I: But Dectara, thy mother, and my wife, Till thou art by my side I will not see; For dreadful are her eyes as death or fate; And many deem her mad.’ 1 Saltain Saltain PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nsubj _ _ 2 made make VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 7 cop _ _ 7 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ! ! PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ 9 northward northward ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 : : PUNCT : _ 13 punct _ _ 12 But but CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 Dectara Dectara PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 thy thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 16 nmod:poss _ _ 16 mother mother NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 22 Till till SCONJ IN _ 24 mark _ _ 23 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 24 nsubj _ _ 24 art be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 25 by by ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 27 nmod:poss _ _ 27 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obl _ _ 28 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 29 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 30 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 31 advmod _ _ 31 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ; ; PUNCT : _ 35 punct _ _ 33 For for ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 34 dreadful dreadful NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 35 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 36 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 38 as as ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 death death NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 40 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 fate fate NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 42 ; ; PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ _ 43 And and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 nsubj _ _ 45 deem deem VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 46 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 mad mad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 48 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 49 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | past | Saltain | answer | | | | I *obl*; Dectara *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent answer=Product | | 2 | **is a** | infinitive | | answer | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **not** **see** | future | I | my side *not said here* | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer side=Stimulus | | 4 | **does** | present | wife's eyes | | | | | for dreadful; as death or fate | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **deem** | present | many | wife | | | | mad *property* | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Attribute | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/111/) - next →: [sentence 113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/113/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/11/)