The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 67

His character is one so consistent and so original that it suffices by itself to stamp the age which conceived it as high among the most poetic of the world.

Who acts: character, age · What happens: suffice, stamp, conceive · To what, where: age, character

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 (character, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 character	nmod:poss
2	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 consistent	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	aux
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 consistent	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 consistent	advmod
6	consistent	consistent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 original	cc
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 original	advmod
9	original	original	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 consistent	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 suffices	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 suffices	nsubj
12	suffices	suffice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 consistent	advcl
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 itself	case
14	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 suffices	obl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stamp	mark
16	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 suffices	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 age	det
18	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stamp	obj
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 conceived	nsubj
20	conceived	conceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 age	acl:relcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 conceived	obj
22	as	as	ADP	_	23 high	case
23	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 conceived	obl
24	among	among	ADP	_	27 poetic	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 poetic	det
26	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	27 poetic	advmod
27	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 conceived	parataxis
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 poetic	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 consistent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	suffice	present	character		by character	tree rules
2	stamp	to-infinitive	character not said here	the age		vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent age=Destination
3	conceive	past	the age	character	as high	vn characterize-29.2-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent it=Theme as high=Attribute

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 67

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 67