--- title: Say, call ye warriors knaves that creep unseen, While true men sleep… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Say, call ye warriors knaves that creep unseen, While true men sleep, up inlet dim, and fiord, Filching the land they proved not with their sword?’ Who acts: you, knaves, true men, men. 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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 (you, knaves, true men, men), 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:pg78491:7:114 # text = Say, call ye warriors knaves that creep unseen, While true men sleep, up inlet dim, and fiord, Filching the land they proved not with their sword?’ 1 Say say VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 3 call call VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 4 ye ye PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 3 obj _ _ 5 warriors warrior NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 knaves knave NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 xcomp _ _ 7 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 8 nsubj _ _ 8 creep creep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 9 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 While while SCONJ IN _ 14 mark _ _ 12 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ _ 14 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 up up ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 inlet inlet NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 compound _ _ 18 dim dim ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fiord fiord NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 Filching filch VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 advcl _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obj _ _ 26 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 proved prove VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 acl:relcl _ _ 28 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 29 with with ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 33 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **call** | infinitive | you *not said here* | ye | | | | warriors *obj*; knaves *xcomp* | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent ye=Theme warrior=Result | | 3 | **creep** | present | knaves | | | | | unseen *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **sleep** | present | true men | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **filch** | gerund | true men *not said here* | the land | | | | | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme | | 6 | **not** **prove** | past | men *= man* | the land *not said here* | | | | with men's sword | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=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 109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/109/) - next →: [Opening, part 8, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/8/1/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)