The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 76
His lifelong aspiration was fulfilled.
What happens: fulfil · To what, where: lifelong aspiration
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: 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 | 3 aspiration | nmod:poss |
| 2 | lifelong | lifelong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 aspiration | amod |
| 3 | aspiration | aspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 5 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fulfilled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil | past · passive | Cuchullain's lifelong aspiration | tree rules |
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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