The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 116
Occasionally they added to old legends an interpolation which might have surprised those who had first sung them.
Who acts: extravagances · What happens: add, surprise, sing · To what, where: interpolation, extravagances
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), 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 | Occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 3 added | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 added | nsubj |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 legends | case |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 legends | amod |
| 6 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 added | obl |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 interpolation | det |
| 8 | interpolation | interpolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 legends | appos |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 surprised | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 surprised | aux |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 surprised | aux |
| 12 | surprised | surprise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 interpolation | acl:relcl |
| 13 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 surprised | obj |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sung | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 sung | aux |
| 16 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 sung | advmod |
| 17 | sung | sing | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sung | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | extravagances = extravagance | to old legends; occasionally property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to legend=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | surprise | might · perfect · passive | a interpolation | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result | |||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past · perfect · passive | extravagances = extravagance | who nsubj:pass; first property | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=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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