The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 130
If Ireland, once converted to the faith, filled the world with her missions, there must have existed in her previously a thoughtfulness as well as a fearlessness each of which found its way at last into the nobler fields of enterprise.
Who acts: Ireland, fearlessness · What happens: fill, exist, find · To what, where: world, thoughtfulness, way, last
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 (Ireland, fearlessness), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 2 Ireland | mark |
| 2 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 converted | punct |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 converted | advmod |
| 5 | converted | converted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Ireland | amod |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 faith | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 faith | det |
| 8 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 converted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ireland | punct |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 world | det |
| 12 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 missions | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 missions | nmod:poss |
| 15 | missions | mission | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 filled | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 existed | punct |
| 17 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 existed | expl |
| 18 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 existed | aux |
| 19 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 existed | aux |
| 20 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 filled | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 existed | obl |
| 23 | previously | previously | ADV | _ | 25 thoughtfulness | advmod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 thoughtfulness | det |
| 25 | thoughtfulness | thoughtfulness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 existed | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 30 fearlessness | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 fearlessness | det |
| 30 | fearlessness | fearlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 existed | conj |
| 31 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 which | det |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 found | nsubj |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 fearlessness | acl:relcl |
| 35 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 found | obj |
| 37 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 last | case |
| 38 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 found | obl |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 fields | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fields | det |
| 41 | nobler | noble | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 fields | amod |
| 42 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 found | obl |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 enterprise | case |
| 44 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fields | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past | Ireland | the world | with IRELAND's missions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent world=Patient with mission=Instrument | |||
| 2 | exist | must · perfect | a thoughtfulness | there | in IRELAND; a fearlessness conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in she=Location | |||
| 3 | find | past | a fearlessness | nature's way | last | into the nobler fields of enterprise | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at last=Asset |
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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