The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 40
The lamented Professor Eugene O’Curry has expressed his opinion that ‘in the time of Senchan and St. Columba’ (that is in the sixth century) ‘it was generally believed that Fergus was the original writer of the tale.’
Who acts: Eugene, expressed opinion, that, Fergus · What happens: lament, express, ‘, be, believe, opine · To what, where: expressed opinion, original writer
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 (Eugene, expressed opinion, that, Fergus), 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 | 9 opinion | det |
| 2 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 expressed | advcl |
| 3 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Eugene | nmod:desc |
| 4 | Eugene | Eugene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 expressed | nsubj |
| 5 | O’Curry | O'Curry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Eugene | flat |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 expressed | aux |
| 7 | expressed | express | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 opinion | amod |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 ‘ | nsubj |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 opinion | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ‘ | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Senchan | case |
| 16 | Senchan | Senchan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 time | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 Columba | cc |
| 18 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Columba | nmod:desc |
| 19 | Columba | Columba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Senchan | conj |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 Senchan | punct |
| 21 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 27 century | punct |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 century | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 century | cop |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 century | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 century | det |
| 26 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 century | amod |
| 27 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Senchan | appos |
| 28 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 27 century | punct |
| 29 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 believed | punct |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 believed | aux:pass |
| 32 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 33 believed | advmod |
| 33 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 34 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 writer | mark |
| 35 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 writer | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 writer | cop |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 writer | det |
| 38 | original | original | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 writer | amod |
| 39 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 believed | xcomp |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 tale | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 tale | det |
| 42 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 writer | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 believed | punct |
| 44 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lament | participle | Eugene Professor not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | express | present · perfect | Eugene Professor | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ‘ | present | Eugene's expressed opinion | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | that | in the sixth century | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | believe | past · passive | Eugene's expressed opinion | opinion nsubj:pass; generally property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | Fergus | the original writer | of the tale | tree rules | |||
| 7 | opine | Eugene | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=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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