The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 54
It is not in the form of translation that an ancient Irish tale of any considerable length admits of being rendered in poetry.
Who acts: Poem, ancient Irish tale, considerable length · What happens: not be, admit, render, tell · To what, where: form, that, poetry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Poem, ancient Irish tale, considerable length), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 form | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 form | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 form | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 form | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 form | det |
| 6 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 translation | case |
| 8 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 form | nmod |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 admits | obj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tale | det |
| 11 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tale | amod |
| 12 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tale | amod |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 admits | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 length | case |
| 15 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 length | det |
| 16 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 length | amod |
| 17 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nmod |
| 18 | admits | admit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 form | advcl |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 21 rendered | mark |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 rendered | aux:pass |
| 21 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 admits | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 poetry | case |
| 23 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rendered | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 form | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | Poem | the form | of translation | tree rules | |||
| 2 | admit speech: other | present | a ancient Irish tale of any considerable length | that | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | render | gerund · passive | a ancient Irish tale of any considerable length not said here | poetry | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient» | ||||
| 4 | tell | any considerable length | nom tale «communication 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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