--- title: Yet once again, King Conor rose and said, ‘My mind is other-minded,… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Yet once again, King Conor rose and said, ‘My mind is other-minded, Lords, than yours; For I, though ne’er by random counsel swayed, Far less by murmurs low of kernes and boors, Find this amiss--that Usnach’s sons this day For one bad woman’s sake are far away; Who acts: King, mind, ne’er, sons. 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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 (King, mind, ne’er, sons), 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:pg78491:5:21 # text = Yet once again, King Conor rose and said, ‘My mind is other-minded, Lords, than yours; For I, though ne’er by random counsel swayed, Far less by murmurs low of kernes and boors, Find this amiss--that Usnach’s sons this day For one bad woman’s sake are far away; 1 Yet yet CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 2 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 3 advmod _ _ 3 again again ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 6 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 rose rise VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 11 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 12 My my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 mind mind NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 14 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 15 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 16 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 15 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 minded minded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 Lords lord NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 than than ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 yours your PRON PRP Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ 24 For for ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 27 though though SCONJ IN _ 32 mark _ _ 28 ne’er ne'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 nsubj _ _ 29 by by ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 random random ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 counsel counsel NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 32 swayed sway VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 Far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 35 advmod _ _ 35 less less ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 32 conj _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 murmurs murmur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ _ 38 low low ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 39 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 kernes kerne NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 obl _ _ 41 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 42 boors boor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 40 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 44 punct _ _ 44 Find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 32 conj _ _ 45 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 46 nsubj _ _ 46 amiss amiss ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 44 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 47 -- -- PUNCT , _ 62 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 that that SCONJ IN _ 62 mark _ _ 49 Usnach Usnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 51 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 50 ’s 's PART POS _ 49 case _ _ 51 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 62 nsubj _ _ 52 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 53 det _ _ 53 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod:unmarked _ _ 54 For for ADP IN _ 59 case _ _ 55 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 57 nummod _ _ 56 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 57 amod _ _ 57 woman woman NOUN NN Number=Sing 59 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 58 ’s 's PART POS _ 57 case _ _ 59 sake sake NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 nmod _ _ 60 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 62 cop _ _ 61 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 62 advmod _ _ 62 away away ADV RB _ 44 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 63 ; ; PUNCT : _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rise** | past | King | | | | again | for I | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | King *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **is** | present | My mind | | | | | Lords *obl*; yours *conj*; minded *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sway** | past | ne’er by random counsel | | | | | | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **find** | infinitive | ne’er by random counsel *not said here* | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **is** | present | Usnach's sons this day for one bad woman's sake | | | | | away, far *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **mind** | | My | | | | | | nom mind «cognition 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 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/22/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/5/)