The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 110
The only cause for surprise is that a moral so grave should have been unconsciously bequeathed by an ancient work, written to amuse, not instruct.
Who acts: only cause, ancient work · What happens: be, bequeath, write, amuse, not instruct · To what, where: moral, grave, ancient work
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 (only cause, ancient work), 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 cause | det |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cause | amod |
| 3 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moral | nsubj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cause | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 moral | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 moral | mark |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 moral | det |
| 9 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 bequeathed | advmod |
| 11 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bequeathed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 bequeathed | aux |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 bequeathed | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 bequeathed | aux:pass |
| 15 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | _ | 16 bequeathed | advmod |
| 16 | bequeathed | bequeath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 moral | acl:relcl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 work | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 work | det |
| 19 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 work | amod |
| 20 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bequeathed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 written | punct |
| 22 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 work | acl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 amuse | mark |
| 24 | amuse | amuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 written | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 instruct | punct |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 instruct | advmod |
| 27 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 amuse | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moral | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the only cause for surprise | a moral | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bequeath | should · perfect · passive | a ancient work | grave | unconsciously property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | write | participle | a ancient work not said here | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | amuse | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 5 | not instruct speech: other | infinitive | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
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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