The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 101
The inferior nation can neither use nor retain the advantages accidentally and dishonestly gained, and defeat succeeds to triumph.
Who acts: inferior nation, defeat · What happens: use, retain, gain, succeed · To what, where: advantages, triumph
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inferior nation, defeat), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nation | det |
| 2 | inferior | inferior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nation | amod |
| 3 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 use | nsubj |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | aux |
| 5 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 6 use | advmod |
| 6 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 retain | cc |
| 8 | retain | retain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 use | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 advantages | det |
| 10 | advantages | advantage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 retain | obj |
| 11 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 8 retain | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 gained | cc |
| 13 | dishonestly | dishonestly | ADV | _ | 14 gained | advmod |
| 14 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 accidentally | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 succeeds | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 succeeds | cc |
| 17 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 succeeds | nsubj |
| 18 | succeeds | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 use | parataxis |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 triumph | mark |
| 20 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 succeeds | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 use | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | can | the inferior nation | neither property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | retain | infinitive | the inferior nation not said here | the advantages | accidentally property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | gain | past | the inferior nation not said here | dishonestly property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | succeed | present | defeat | triumph | tree rules |
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.
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