--- title: ‘Not less, great king, this deed I dare not do, For Justice keeps an… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: ‘Not less, great king, this deed I dare not do, For Justice keeps an axe, and keen its edge, In worlds unseen; and they their sin shall rue Who spill the righteous blood, or break the pledge. Who acts: great king, Justice, Fate. 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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 (great king, Justice, Fate), 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:pg78491:7:47 # text = ‘Not less, great king, this deed I dare not do, For Justice keeps an axe, and keen its edge, In worlds unseen; and they their sin shall rue Who spill the righteous blood, or break the pledge. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 3 advmod _ _ 3 less less ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 8 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 9 deed deed NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 10 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 11 dare dare VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 aux _ _ 12 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 11 advmod _ _ 13 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 For for SCONJ IN _ 17 mark _ _ 16 Justice Justice PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 17 keeps keep VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 advcl _ _ 18 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 axe axe NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 keen keen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 conj _ _ 23 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 24 nmod:poss _ _ 24 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 26 In in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 worlds world NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl _ _ 28 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 amod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 32 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 33 nmod:poss _ _ 33 sin sin NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 rue rue VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 13 parataxis _ _ 36 Who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 37 nsubj _ _ 37 spill spill VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 35 ccomp _ _ 38 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 40 det _ _ 39 righteous righteous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 40 amod _ _ 40 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 43 punct _ _ 42 or or CCONJ CC _ 43 cc _ _ 43 break break VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 conj _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 pledge pledge NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 13 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | great king and this deed | | | | | I *nsubj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **keep** | present | Justice | a axe | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme | | 3 | **keen** | infinitive | great king and this deed *not said here* | axe's edge | | worlds | | | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent edge=Topic | | 4 | **rue** | shall | Fate | | | | | Fate's sin *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | | 5 | **spill** | present | | the righteous blood | | | | Who *nsubj* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Theme | | 6 | **break** | infinitive | Fate *not said here* | the pledge | | | | | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pledge=Patient | 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 46](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/46/) - next →: [sentence 48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/48/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)