The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 105
It ends with a great event, a battle and an overthrow; and if that catastrophe is but a ‘conclusion inconclusive,’ and no results remain behind, in this very circumstance lies a special significance of the work.
Who acts: defeat, catastrophe, results · What happens: end, be, remain, lie · To what, where: special significance, circumstance
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 (defeat, catastrophe, results), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ends | nsubj |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 event | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 event | det |
| 5 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 event | amod |
| 6 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 battle | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 battle | det |
| 9 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 event | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 overthrow | cc |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 overthrow | det |
| 12 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 battle | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 inconclusive | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 inconclusive | cc |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 inconclusive | mark |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 catastrophe | det |
| 17 | catastrophe | catastrophe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inconclusive | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 inconclusive | cop |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 inconclusive | cc |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 conclusion | det |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 conclusion | punct |
| 22 | conclusion | conclusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 inconclusive | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | inconclusive | inconclusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ends | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 inconclusive | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 23 inconclusive | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 remain | cc |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 results | det |
| 28 | results | result | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 remain | nsubj |
| 29 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 inconclusive | conj |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 29 remain | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 lies | punct |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 circumstance | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 circumstance | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 circumstance | advmod |
| 35 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lies | obl |
| 36 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 remain | conj |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 significance | det |
| 38 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 significance | amod |
| 39 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lies | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 work | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 work | det |
| 42 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 significance | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | defeat | with a great event and a battle and a overthrow | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector with event=Subeventuality | ||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | that catastrophe | a conclusion obl:unmarked; inconclusive property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | present | no results | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | present | no results not said here | a special significance of the work | this circumstance | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location significance=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.
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