The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 104
The Tain, a work which, while abounding in passion, distinctly includes an element of humour and irony, suffers nothing from a revulsion so strange.
Who acts: work, Tain · What happens: abound, include, suffer · To what, where: passion, element, nothing, revulsion
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 (work, Tain), 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 | 2 Tain | det |
| 2 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 suffers | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 work | punct |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tain | appos |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 abounding | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 abounding | punct |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 abounding | mark |
| 9 | abounding | abound | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 work | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 passion | case |
| 11 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 abounding | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 includes | punct |
| 13 | distinctly | distinctly | ADV | _ | 14 includes | advmod |
| 14 | includes | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 abounding | conj |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 element | det |
| 16 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 includes | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 humour | case |
| 18 | humour | humour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 element | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 irony | cc |
| 20 | irony | irony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 humour | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tain | punct |
| 22 | suffers | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 suffers | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 revulsion | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 revulsion | det |
| 26 | revulsion | revulsion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 suffers | obl |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 strange | advmod |
| 28 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 suffers | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 suffers | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abound | gerund | a work | passion | vn swarm-47.5.1-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in passion=Location | ||||
| 2 | include | present | a work not said here | a element of humour and irony | distinctly property | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent element=Theme | |||
| 3 | suffer | present | the Tain | nothing | a revulsion | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus |
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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