The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 106
To this issue the whole leads up, and the reader is not taken by surprise.
Who acts: whole, surprise · What happens: lead up, not take · To what, where: reader
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 (whole, surprise), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 issue | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 issue | det |
| 3 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 leads | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 whole | det |
| 5 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 leads | nsubj |
| 6 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 leads | compound:prt |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 taken | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 taken | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 reader | det |
| 11 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux:pass |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 taken | advmod |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 leads | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 surprise | case |
| 16 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 leads | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead up | present | the whole | to this issue | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to issue=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not take | present · passive | surprise | the reader | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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