The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 59
It is the amplest voice from Ireland’s ‘Heroic Age,’ thus belonging to the first, as the so-called ‘Ossianic’ poems belong to the second cycle of ancient Irish song.
Who acts: Tain, amplest voice, poems · What happens: be, belong, call · To what, where: amplest voice, Heroic Age, so · 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 (Tain, amplest voice, poems), 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 | 5 voice | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 voice | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 voice | det |
| 4 | amplest | ample | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 voice | amod |
| 5 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 Age | case |
| 7 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Age | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Ireland | case |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Age | punct |
| 10 | Heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Age | amod |
| 11 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 voice | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 belonging | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 belonging | punct |
| 14 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 15 belonging | advmod |
| 15 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 voice | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 first | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 first | det |
| 18 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 15 belonging | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 called | punct |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 called | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 called | det |
| 22 | so | so | X | _ | 24 called | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 so | punct |
| 24 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 belonging | conj |
| 25 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ossianic | punct |
| 26 | Ossianic | Ossianic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 called | xcomp |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 Ossianic | punct |
| 28 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 belong | nsubj |
| 29 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 called | xcomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 cycle | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 cycle | det |
| 32 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 33 cycle | amod |
| 33 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 belong | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 song | case |
| 35 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 song | amod |
| 36 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 song | amod |
| 37 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 cycle | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 voice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Tain | the amplest voice | from Ireland's Heroic Age | tree rules | |||
| 2 | belong | gerund | the amplest voice not said here | to the first; thus property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call | participle · passive | so | Ossianic xcomp | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | belong | present | poems | to the second cycle of ancient Irish song | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
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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