The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 51
The ‘Tripartite Life of St. Patrick’ is attributed by Colgan and others to the sixth century, because it mentions as still living many persons known to have died before the close of that age.
Who acts: Colgan, Life · What happens: attribute, mention, live, know, die · To what, where: Tripartite Life, living many persons
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 (Colgan, Life), 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 | 4 Life | det |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tripartite | punct |
| 3 | Tripartite | Tripartite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Life | compound |
| 4 | Life | Life | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Patrick | case |
| 6 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Patrick | nmod:desc |
| 7 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Life | nmod |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Life | punct |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 attributed | aux:pass |
| 10 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 Colgan | case |
| 12 | Colgan | Colgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 attributed | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 others | cc |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Colgan | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 century | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 century | det |
| 17 | sixth | sixth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 century | amod |
| 18 | century | century | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 attributed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 mentions | punct |
| 20 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 22 mentions | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 mentions | nsubj |
| 22 | mentions | mention | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 attributed | conj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 persons | case |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 living | advmod |
| 25 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 persons | amod |
| 26 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 persons | amod |
| 27 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 mentions | obl |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 persons | acl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 died | mark |
| 30 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 died | aux |
| 31 | died | die | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 known | xcomp |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 34 close | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 close | det |
| 34 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 died | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 age | case |
| 36 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 age | det |
| 37 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 close | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 attributed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attribute | present · passive | Colgan and others | the Tripartite Life of Patrick St. | century | tree rules | |||
| 2 | mention speech: other | present | Life | as living many persons | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | gerund | still | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | know | participle | living many persons not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive · perfect | before the close of that age | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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