The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 46
These two versions differ much from each other, the earlier being the simpler and stronger, while the later is the richer in detail.
Who acts: two versions · What happens: differ, be · To what, where: detail
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 (two versions), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 versions | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 versions | nummod |
| 3 | versions | version | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 differ | nsubj |
| 4 | differ | differ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | much | much | ADV | _ | 4 differ | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 differ | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 simpler | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 earlier | det |
| 11 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 simpler | advmod |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 simpler | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 simpler | det |
| 14 | simpler | simple | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 differ | parataxis |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 stronger | cc |
| 16 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 simpler | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 richer | punct |
| 18 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 richer | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 later | det |
| 20 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 23 richer | advmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 richer | cop |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 richer | det |
| 23 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 simpler | conj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 detail | case |
| 25 | detail | detail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 richer | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 differ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | differ | present | this two versions | from each | vn differ-23.4 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme from each=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | early, simple property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | is | present | detail | late, rich property | 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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