--- title: The sea-girt warrioress That honoured few men honoured us alike: We… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: The sea-girt warrioress That honoured few men honoured us alike: We ate together of the self-same dish: We couched together ’neath the self-same shield: Now living man I stand, and he lies dead!’ Who acts: sea, That, few men, We. 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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, That, few men, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg78491:13:224 # text = The sea-girt warrioress That honoured few men honoured us alike: We ate together of the self-same dish: We couched together ’neath the self-same shield: Now living man I stand, and he lies dead!’ 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 4 girt girt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 warrioress warrioress NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obj _ _ 6 That that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 7 nsubj _ _ 7 honoured honour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 few few ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 nsubj _ _ 10 honoured honour VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 ccomp _ _ 11 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 obj _ _ 12 alike alike ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 13 : : PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 14 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 15 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 16 together together ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 17 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 19 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 20 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 19 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 dish dish NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 23 : : PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 24 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 25 nsubj _ _ 25 couched couch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 conj _ _ 26 together together ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ _ 27 ’ ' PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 neath neath ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 30 self self NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 31 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 30 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 32 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 shield shield NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 34 : : PUNCT : _ 37 punct _ _ 35 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 living live VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 37 amod _ _ 37 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 appos _ _ 38 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 stand stand VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 42 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 43 nsubj _ _ 43 lies lie VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 44 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 45 ! ! PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 46 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **girt** | infinitive | the sea | warrioress | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **honour** | past | That | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **honour** | past | few men | us | | | | alike *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **eat** | past | We | | | | | of the same dish; together *property* | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of dish=Source | | 5 | **couch** | past | We | | | | | the same shield *parataxis*; together *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **live** | gerund | | | | | now | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **stand** | present | I | living man *not said here* | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer man=Stimulus | | 8 | **lie** | present | man | | | | | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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 221](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/221/) - next →: [sentence 223](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/223/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/13/)