The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

The living bards and the clergy could not but be rivals, but it was often a friendly rivalship; and as regards the bards of past centuries, there was no room for jealousy.

Who acts: living bards, clergy, room · What happens: be, regard · To what, where: rivals, friendly rivalship, bards

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 (living bards, clergy, room), 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 bards	det
2	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bards	compound
3	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 rivals	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 could	cc
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clergy	det
6	clergy	clergy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 could	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rivals	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 could	advmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 rivals	cc
10	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 rivals	cop
11	rivals	rival	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rivalship	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 rivalship	cc
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rivalship	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rivalship	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	19 rivalship	advmod
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 rivalship	det
18	friendly	friendly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 rivalship	amod
19	rivalship	rivalship	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rivals	conj
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 regards	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 regards	cc
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 regards	advmod
23	regards	regard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 rivals	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bards	det
25	bards	bard	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 regards	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 centuries	case
27	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 centuries	amod
28	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 bards	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 regards	parataxis
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 room	det
33	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 was	nsubj
34	for	for	ADP	_	35 jealousy	case
35	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 room	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 rivals	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	could	the living bards	rivals but a friendly rivalship			tree rules
2	is a	past	clergy	a friendly rivalship		often property	tree rules
3	regard	present		the bards of past centuries			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bard=Theme
4	be	past	no room for jealousy		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 113

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 113