The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 61
Yet even they, scarcely excepting Diarmid, Oscar, and Fionn himself, though the terror of Ireland’s provincial kings till their power, rendered too exacting by long success, was extinguished by a single fatal reverse, were never counted equal to the mighty ones of her earlier time.
Who acts: contemporaries, single fatal reverse · What happens: except, render, exact, extinguish, not count · To what, where: Diarmid
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 (contemporaries, single fatal reverse), 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 6 excepting | cc |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 6 excepting | advmod |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 excepting | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 excepting | punct |
| 5 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 6 excepting | advmod |
| 6 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 rendered | advcl |
| 7 | Diarmid | Diarmid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 excepting | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Oscar | punct |
| 9 | Oscar | Oscar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Diarmid | nmod:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 himself | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 himself | cc |
| 12 | Fionn | Fionn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 himself | compound |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 Diarmid | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 terror | punct |
| 15 | though | though | ADP | _ | 17 terror | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 terror | det |
| 17 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 excepting | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kings | case |
| 19 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 kings | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 Ireland | case |
| 21 | provincial | provincial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 kings | amod |
| 22 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 terror | nmod |
| 23 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 power | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 power | nmod:poss |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kings | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 excepting | punct |
| 27 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | too | too | ADV | _ | 29 exacting | advmod |
| 29 | exacting | exact | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 rendered | advcl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 success | case |
| 31 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 success | amod |
| 32 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 exacting | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 extinguished | punct |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 extinguished | aux:pass |
| 35 | extinguished | extinguish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 rendered | conj |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 reverse | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 reverse | det |
| 38 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 reverse | amod |
| 39 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 reverse | amod |
| 40 | reverse | reverse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 extinguished | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 counted | punct |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 counted | aux:pass |
| 43 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 44 counted | advmod |
| 44 | counted | count | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 rendered | conj |
| 45 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 counted | xcomp |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 49 ones | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 ones | det |
| 48 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 ones | amod |
| 49 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 equal | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 53 time | case |
| 51 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 time | nmod:poss |
| 52 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 53 time | amod |
| 53 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 ones | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 rendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | except | gerund | contemporaries = contemporary | Diarmid Oscar Oscar | though the terror of Ireland's provincial kings till contemporaries's power; scarcely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | render | past | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | exact | gerund | by long success | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | extinguish | past · passive | a single fatal reverse | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not count | past · passive | equal property | vn matter-91 «NP V» |
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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