The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 90
Should there ever come a time when the spiritual is the chief object of man’s reverence, the present adulation of mere intellect will be looked on as we regard the enthusiasm bestowed on martial might in days gone by.
Who acts: spiritual, we, enthusiasm, man · What happens: come, be, look on, regard, bestow, go by · To what, where: chief object, enthusiasm, martial
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 (spiritual, we, enthusiasm, man), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 come | expl |
| 3 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 4 come | advmod |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 come | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 27 looked | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spiritual | det |
| 9 | spiritual | spiritual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 object | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 object | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 object | det |
| 12 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 object | amod |
| 13 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looked | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 reverence | case |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reverence | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 man | case |
| 17 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 object | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 adulation | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 adulation | det |
| 20 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 adulation | amod |
| 21 | adulation | adulation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 object | appos |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 intellect | case |
| 23 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 intellect | amod |
| 24 | intellect | intellect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 adulation | nmod |
| 25 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 looked | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 looked | aux:pass |
| 27 | looked | look | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 come | advcl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 27 looked | compound:prt |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 regard | mark |
| 30 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 regard | nsubj |
| 31 | regard | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 looked | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 enthusiasm | det |
| 33 | enthusiasm | enthusiasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 gone | nsubj |
| 34 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 enthusiasm | acl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 martial | case |
| 36 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 bestowed | obl |
| 37 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 gone | aux |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 gone | obl |
| 40 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 31 regard | ccomp |
| 41 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 gone | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | should | there | ever; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the spiritual | the chief object | of man's reverence; the present adulation of mere intellect appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | look on | future · passive | the chief object | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | regard | present | we | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | bestow | participle | the enthusiasm not said here | martial | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | go by | might | the enthusiasm | day | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | reverence | man | nom reverence «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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