The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 131
It is not unlikely that the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona often cheered his way over the Northumbrian moors or through the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as well as with a Latin hymn of Sedulius.
Who acts: apostle, Northumbrian, Sedulius · What happens: not be, cheer, moor, hymn · To what, where: way
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 (apostle, Northumbrian, Sedulius), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 unlikely | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlikely | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 unlikely | advmod |
| 4 | unlikely | unlikely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 cheered | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 apostle | det |
| 7 | apostle | apostle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheered | nsubj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Clonmacnoise | case |
| 9 | Clonmacnoise | clonmacnoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 apostle | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Iona | cc |
| 11 | Iona | Iona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Clonmacnoise | conj |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 13 cheered | advmod |
| 13 | cheered | cheer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unlikely | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheered | obj |
| 16 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 19 moors | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Northumbrian | det |
| 18 | Northumbrian | Northumbrian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 moors | nsubj |
| 19 | moors | moor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 way | acl:relcl |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 forest | cc |
| 21 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 forest | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 forest | det |
| 23 | Teuton | Teuton | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 forest | compound |
| 24 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moors | conj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 ballad | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 ballad | det |
| 27 | ballad | ballad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forest | nmod |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 Cuchullain | case |
| 29 | Cuchullain | Cuchullain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ballad | nmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 36 hymn | cc |
| 31 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 as | fixed |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 as | fixed |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 hymn | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 hymn | det |
| 35 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 hymn | amod |
| 36 | hymn | hymn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forest | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Sedulius | case |
| 38 | Sedulius | Sedulius | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 hymn | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unlikely | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | unlikely property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | cheer | past | the apostle from Clonmacnoise and Iona | apostle's way | often property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus way=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | moor | present | the Northumbrian | apostle's way not said here | the Teuton forest with a ballad about Cuchullain as a Latin hymn of Sedulius conj | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent way=Theme | |||
| 4 | hymn | Sedulius | nom hymn «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
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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