The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 84
We smile at the boundless admiration lavished on strength by all early races; nor shall we understand it aright while we suppose that it was, indeed, directed to mere physical qualities.
Who acts: We · What happens: smile, lavish, understand, suppose, be, direct · To what, where: boundless admiration, strength, physical qualities · 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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 smile | nsubj |
| 2 | smile | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 admiration | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 admiration | det |
| 5 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 admiration | amod |
| 6 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 smile | obl |
| 7 | lavished | lavish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 admiration | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 strength | case |
| 9 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lavished | obl |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 races | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 races | det |
| 12 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 races | amod |
| 13 | races | race | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 lavished | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 understand | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 18 understand | cc |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 understand | aux |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 understand | nsubj |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 smile | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 understand | obj |
| 20 | aright | aright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 understand | xcomp |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 suppose | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 suppose | nsubj |
| 23 | suppose | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 understand | advcl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 was | mark |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 was | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 indeed | cop |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 was | punct |
| 28 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 23 suppose | ccomp |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 directed | punct |
| 30 | directed | direct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 suppose | conj |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 mere | case |
| 32 | mere | mere | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 directed | xcomp |
| 33 | physical | physical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 qualities | amod |
| 34 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 mere | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 smile | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | smile | present | We | the boundless admiration | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lavish | participle | the boundless admiration not said here | strength | by all early races | tree rules | |||
| 3 | understand | shall | we | strength | aright property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | suppose | present | we | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | past | indeed property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | direct | participle | we not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | mere | infinitive | we not said here | physical qualities | 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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