The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 128

The heroic at its highest stretches forth its hands to the spiritual; and its very deficiencies are a confession that it needs to be supplemented by a something higher than itself.

Who acts: deficiencies, nature, something · What happens: be, need, supplement · To what, where: confession

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 (deficiencies, nature, something), 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	2 heroic	det
2	heroic	heroic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	6 stretches	case
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 stretches	nmod:poss
5	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 stretches	amod
6	stretches	stretch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heroic	obl
7	forth	forth	ADV	_	9 hands	advmod
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hands	nmod:poss
9	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 stretches	nmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 spiritual	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 spiritual	det
12	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hands	nmod
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 confession	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 confession	cc
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 deficiencies	nmod:poss
16	very	very	ADV	_	17 deficiencies	advmod
17	deficiencies	deficiency	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 confession	nsubj
18	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 confession	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 confession	det
20	confession	confession	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heroic	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 needs	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 needs	nsubj
23	needs	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 confession	advcl
24	to	to	PART	_	26 supplemented	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 supplemented	aux:pass
26	supplemented	supplement	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 needs	xcomp
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 something	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 something	det
29	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	26 supplemented	obl:agent
30	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	29 something	amod
31	than	than	ADP	_	32 itself	case
32	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	30 higher	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heroic	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	nature's deficiencies	a confession	tree rules
2	need	present	nature		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	supplement not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	something		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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 128

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 128