--- title: Him Conor answered: ‘Cathbad! oath I make By all those regions sacre… — The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of I… · tree and pragmatics description: Him Conor answered: ‘Cathbad! oath I make By all those regions sacred and unseen, By all the Powers that in them sleep or wake, The Gods that are, or shall be, or have been, This hand on Usnach’s sons shall work no wrong; Captive, not dead, I wish them--nor for long.’ Who acts: Justice, Cathbad oath --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/50/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The foray of Queen Meave, and other le…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/) / [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/) / 50 # The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 50 Him Conor answered: ‘Cathbad! oath I make By all those regions sacred and unseen, By all the Powers that in them sleep or wake, The Gods that are, or shall be, or have been, This hand on Usnach’s sons shall work no wrong; Captive, not dead, I wish them--nor for long.’ **Who acts:** Justice, Cathbad oath, hand, I · **What happens:** answer, make, sleep, wake, be, work · **To what, where:** Powers, wrong, regions This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Justice, Cathbad oath, hand, I), 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:pg78491:7:50 # text = Him Conor answered: ‘Cathbad! oath I make By all those regions sacred and unseen, By all the Powers that in them sleep or wake, The Gods that are, or shall be, or have been, This hand on Usnach’s sons shall work no wrong; Captive, not dead, I wish them--nor for long.’ 1 Him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 Conor Conor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 answered answer VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 3 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 Cathbad Cathbad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ! ! PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ 8 oath oath NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 9 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 make make VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 11 By by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 14 det:predet _ _ 13 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 14 det _ _ 14 regions region NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 15 sacred sacred ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 17 unseen unseen ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 19 By by ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 22 det:predet _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 Powers power NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obl _ _ 23 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 26 obj _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 26 obl _ _ 26 sleep sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 27 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 wake wake VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 26 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 30 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 31 Gods god NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 conj _ _ 32 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 37 obj _ _ 33 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 37 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 or or CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 36 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 37 aux _ _ 37 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 31 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 39 or or CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 been be VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 50 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 50 punct _ _ 43 This this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 44 det _ _ 44 hand hand NOUN NN Number=Sing 50 nsubj _ _ 45 on on ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 46 Usnach Usnach PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ’s 's PART POS _ 46 case _ _ 48 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 44 nmod _ _ 49 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 50 aux _ _ 50 work work VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 parataxis _ _ 51 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 52 det _ _ 52 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 50 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 53 ; ; PUNCT : _ 54 punct _ _ 54 Captive captive ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 55 , , PUNCT , _ 57 punct _ _ 56 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 57 advmod _ _ 57 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 54 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 58 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 59 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 60 nsubj _ _ 60 wish wish VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 54 parataxis _ _ 61 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 iobj _ SpaceAfter=No 62 -- -- PUNCT , _ 65 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 63 nor nor CCONJ CC Polarity=Neg 65 cc _ _ 64 for for ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 long long ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 67 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Justice | | | | | Conor *nsubj* | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **make** | present | Cathbad oath | | | | | by all regions; by all Powers and the Gods; I *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 3 | **sleep** | present | | all Powers and the Gods | | | | in regions *= region* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent that=Value in they=Location | | 4 | **wake** | present | | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **be** | present · perfect | this hand on Usnach's sons *not said here* | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **work** | shall | this hand on Usnach's sons | no wrong | | | | | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wrong=Material | | 7 | **wish** | present | I | | regions *= region* | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot they=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 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/49/) - next →: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/51/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/7/)