The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 41
[1] ‘On this supposition it must have existed in a rudimental form a little before the Christian Era.
What happens: exist · To what, where: opinion, supposition
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: 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 existed | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 1 | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 existed | punct |
| 5 | On | on | ADP | _ | 7 supposition | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 supposition | det |
| 7 | supposition | supposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 existed | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 existed | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 existed | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 existed | aux |
| 11 | existed | exist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 form | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 form | det |
| 14 | rudimental | rudimental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 15 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 existed | obl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 little | det |
| 17 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 form | amod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 21 Era | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Era | det |
| 20 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | _ | 21 Era | flat |
| 21 | Era | Era | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 little | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 existed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | must · perfect · passive | opinion | this supposition | in a rudimental form; 1 discourse | 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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