The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 47
To the sixth century belong not a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity, such as the elegy written by Dallan Forgaill on the death of St. Columba, A.D.
Who acts: unquestioned authenticity, Columba · What happens: not belong, write, work, die · To what, where: few Irish works, elegy, death
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 (unquestioned authenticity, Columba), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 century | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 century | det |
| 3 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 century | amod |
| 4 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belong | obl |
| 5 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 belong | advmod |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 works | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 works | amod |
| 9 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 works | amod |
| 10 | works | work | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 belong | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 authenticity | case |
| 12 | unquestioned | unquestioned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 authenticity | amod |
| 13 | authenticity | authenticity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 works | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 elegy | punct |
| 15 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 18 elegy | case |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 such | fixed |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 elegy | det |
| 18 | elegy | elegy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 authenticity | appos |
| 19 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 elegy | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 Dallan | case |
| 21 | Dallan | Dallan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 written | obl:agent |
| 22 | Forgaill | Forgaill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Dallan | flat |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 death | det |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 written | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Columba | case |
| 27 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Columba | nmod:desc |
| 28 | Columba | Columba | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 death | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 A.D | punct |
| 30 | A.D | A.D | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Columba | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not belong | present | a few Irish works of unquestioned authenticity | century | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | write | participle | the elegy not said here | the death of Columba St. and A.D | Dallan obl:agent | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on death=Destination | |||
| 3 | work | unquestioned authenticity | nom work «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | die | Columba St. and A.D | nom death «event 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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