The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 114
By degrees the clergy took an interest in the ancient tales, and became attached to what they befriended.
Who acts: clergy, degrees · What happens: take, become, attach, befriend · To what, where: interest, ancient tales
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 (clergy, degrees), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 degrees | case |
| 2 | degrees | degree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 took | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 clergy | det |
| 4 | clergy | clergy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 interest | det |
| 7 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tales | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tales | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tales | amod |
| 11 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 interest | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 became | cc |
| 14 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 took | conj |
| 15 | attached | attach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 became | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 attached | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 befriended | nsubj |
| 19 | befriended | befriend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the clergy | a interest | the ancient tales | by degrees | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Value in tale=Location | ||
| 2 | become | past | the clergy not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attach | participle | the clergy not said here | what obl | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent to what=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | befriend | past | degrees = degree | tree rules |
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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