The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 62
The Heroic Age had reached its highest greatness shortly before the Christian Era.
Who acts: Heroic Age · What happens: reach · To what, where: highest greatness
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 (Heroic Age), 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 Age | det |
| 2 | Heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Age | amod |
| 3 | Age | Age | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 reached | aux |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 greatness | nmod:poss |
| 7 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 greatness | amod |
| 8 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obj |
| 9 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 5 reached | advmod |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 13 Era | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Era | det |
| 12 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | _ | 13 Era | flat |
| 13 | Era | Era | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect | the Heroic Age | reverse's highest greatness | before the Christian Era | shortly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent greatness=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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