The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 115
Amid many extravagances they detected doubtless a significance which escapes the half-closed eye of a cynic shrewdness.
Who acts: extravagances, significance · What happens: detect, escape, close · To what, where: significance, closed eye
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 (extravagances, significance), 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 | Amid | amid | ADP | _ | 3 extravagances | case |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 extravagances | amod |
| 3 | extravagances | extravagance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 detected | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 detected | nsubj |
| 5 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | doubtless | doubtless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 detected | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 significance | det |
| 8 | significance | significance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 detected | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 escapes | nsubj |
| 10 | escapes | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 significance | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 eye | det |
| 12 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 14 closed | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 half | punct |
| 14 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 eye | amod |
| 15 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 escapes | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 shrewdness | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 shrewdness | det |
| 18 | cynic | cynic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shrewdness | amod |
| 19 | shrewdness | shrewdness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eye | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 detected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | detect | past | extravagances = extravagance | a significance | amid many extravagances; doubtless property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer significance=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | escape | present | a significance | the closed eye of a cynic shrewdness | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme eye=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | close | participle | half compound | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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