The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 53
The following poem, written of course in the character of an old Irish bard, is not a translation except as regards some passages which occur chiefly in Fragment III.
Who acts: following poem, passages · What happens: follow, write, not be, occur · To what, where: following poem, character, translation, Fragment
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 (following poem, passages), 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 | 3 poem | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 poem | amod |
| 3 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 translation | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 written | punct |
| 5 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 poem | acl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 course | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 character | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 character | det |
| 10 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 written | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 bard | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 bard | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bard | amod |
| 14 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bard | amod |
| 15 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 character | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 poem | punct |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 translation | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 translation | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 translation | det |
| 20 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 21 | except | except | ADP | _ | 23 regards | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 regards | case |
| 23 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 translation | nmod |
| 24 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 passages | det |
| 25 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 regards | conj |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 occur | nsubj |
| 27 | occur | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 passages | acl:relcl |
| 28 | chiefly | chiefly | ADV | _ | 27 occur | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 Fragment | case |
| 30 | Fragment | Fragment | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 occur | obl |
| 31 | III | III | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 30 Fragment | flat |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 translation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | write | participle | the following poem not said here | the character of a old Irish bard | of course | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in character=Destination | |||
| 3 | not is a | present | the following poem | a translation | except regards and some passages | tree rules | |||
| 4 | occur | present | some passages | Fragment | chiefly property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fragment=Location |
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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