--- title: But Illan, grieved at heart, with sword half drawn, Replied, ‘While… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: But Illan, grieved at heart, with sword half drawn, Replied, ‘While lives this sword, whoe’er may fly, Faithful and true to Usnach’s Sons am I!’ Who acts: Illan, I, whoe’er. 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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 (Illan, I, whoe’er), 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:pg78491:6:99 # text = But Illan, grieved at heart, with sword half drawn, Replied, ‘While lives this sword, whoe’er may fly, Faithful and true to Usnach’s Sons am I!’ 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 4 cc _ _ 2 Illan Illan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 4 grieved grieve VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 5 at at ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 heart heart NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 8 with with ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 half half NOUN NN Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac 4 parataxis _ _ 11 drawn draw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 Replied reply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 10 punct _ _ 15 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 16 While while SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 17 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 18 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 det _ _ 19 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 whoe’er whoe'er NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 22 may may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 23 aux _ _ 23 fly fly VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 17 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 25 punct _ _ 25 Faithful faithful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 conj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 conj _ _ 28 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 29 Usnach Usnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 ’s 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 Sons Son PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 32 am be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 17 cop _ _ 33 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 ! ! PUNCT . _ 17 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 17 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **grieve** | participle | Illan | | | heart | | sword half *parataxis* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **draw** | participle | | sword half *not said here* | | | | | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | participle | | | | | | | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is** | present | I | | | | | this sword *obj*; live *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **fly** | may | whoe’er | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 97](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/97/) - next →: [sentence 99](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/99/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/6/)