--- title: Before the queen Boastful the sea-king laid his club, and spake: ‘Qu… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Before the queen Boastful the sea-king laid his club, and spake: ‘Queen, though to combat with a beardless boy Affronts my name, my lineage, and my strength, His petulance shall vex thine eye no more! Who acts: sea king, petulance, my. 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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 (sea king, petulance, my), 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:pg78491:12:82 # text = Before the queen Boastful the sea-king laid his club, and spake: ‘Queen, though to combat with a beardless boy Affronts my name, my lineage, and my strength, His petulance shall vex thine eye no more! 1 Before before ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 queen queen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 4 Boastful Boastful PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 appos _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 6 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 8 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 laid lay VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 club club NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 spake speak NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 : : PUNCT : _ 17 punct _ _ 16 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 Queen Queen PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 though though SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 to to PART TO _ 21 mark _ _ 21 combat combat VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 22 with with ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 23 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 24 beardless beardless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 25 boy boy NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 Affronts affront NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obl _ _ 27 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 28 nmod:poss _ _ 28 name name NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 lineage lineage NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 34 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 35 nmod:poss _ _ 35 strength strength NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 36 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 37 His his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 38 nmod:poss _ _ 38 petulance petulance NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nsubj _ _ 39 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 40 vex vex VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 acl:relcl _ _ 41 thine thy PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 42 nmod:poss _ _ 42 eye eye NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ _ 43 no no ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ _ 44 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 40 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **lay** | past | the sea king | King's club | | | before the queen | spake *obl*; my strength *parataxis* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent club=Theme before queen=Destination | | 2 | **combat** | to-infinitive | the sea king *not said here* | | | | | with a beardless boy Affronts my name and my lineage | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with affront=Co-Agent | | 3 | **vex** | shall | King's petulance | thine eye | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eye=Experiencer | | 4 | **name** | | my | | | | | | nom name «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 79](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/79/) - next →: [sentence 81](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/81/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/12/)