The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 89
This close connection between the material and the spiritual explains the rapidity with which the wounds of these legendary heroes heal.
Who acts: close connection, wounds · What happens: explain, heal, wound · To what, where: rapidity, legendary heroes
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 (close connection, wounds), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 connection | det |
| 2 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 connection | amod |
| 3 | connection | connection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explains | nsubj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 6 material | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 material | det |
| 6 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 connection | nmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spiritual | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spiritual | det |
| 9 | spiritual | spiritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 material | conj |
| 10 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 rapidity | det |
| 12 | rapidity | rapidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 explains | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 heal | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wounds | det |
| 16 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 heal | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 heroes | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 heroes | det |
| 19 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 heroes | amod |
| 20 | heroes | hero | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 wounds | nmod |
| 21 | heal | heal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 rapidity | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 explains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | explain speech: assert | present | this close connection between the material and the spiritual | the rapidity | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rapidity=Topic | ||||
| 2 | heal | present | the wounds of this legendary heroes | with the rapidity | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with which=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | wound | this legendary heroes | nom wound «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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