The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 86
Body and soul were not then thus carefully discriminated; the heroic deed was attributed, not to the hand alone, but to the warrior himself, his heart and his brain; and not to the man only, but to some divine aid, his because deserved by him.
What happens: not discriminate, attribute, deserve · To what, where: Body, heroic deed
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 | Body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discriminated | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 soul | cc |
| 3 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Body | conj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discriminated | aux:pass |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 discriminated | advmod |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 thus | advmod |
| 7 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 9 discriminated | advmod |
| 8 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 9 discriminated | advmod |
| 9 | discriminated | discriminate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 attributed | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 deed | det |
| 12 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deed | amod |
| 13 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attributed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 attributed | aux:pass |
| 15 | attributed | attribute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 discriminated | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hand | punct |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 hand | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 hand | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hand | det |
| 20 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attributed | obl |
| 21 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 20 hand | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 warrior | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 warrior | cc |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 warrior | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 warrior | det |
| 26 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 attributed | parataxis |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 warrior | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 heart | punct |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 himself | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 brain | cc |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 brain | nmod:poss |
| 33 | brain | brain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 himself | conj |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 man | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 man | cc |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 man | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 man | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 man | det |
| 39 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 warrior | conj |
| 40 | only | only | ADV | _ | 39 man | advmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 aid | punct |
| 42 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 aid | cc |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 aid | case |
| 44 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 aid | det |
| 45 | divine | divine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 aid | amod |
| 46 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 warrior | conj |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 his | punct |
| 48 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 warrior | nmod:poss |
| 49 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 50 deserved | mark |
| 50 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 attributed | advcl |
| 51 | by | by | ADP | _ | 52 him | case |
| 52 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 deserved | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 discriminated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not discriminate | past · passive | Body and soul | then | carefully, thus property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | attribute | past · passive | the heroic deed | to the hand; man's warrior Cuchullain and the man but some divine aid parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deserve | participle | by man | 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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