The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 91

The imaginative literature of early races wears a rough exterior; but as we are told of a ‘latent heat,’ so there exists a latent thoughtfulness; and it is often found unexpectedly in the depths of a tale which on its surface reveals no disposition to deal with hard problems.

Who acts: imaginative literature · What happens: wear, tell, exist, find, reveal, deal · To what, where: rough exterior, we, latent thoughtfulness, literature, depths, tale · 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 (imaginative literature), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 literature	det
2	imaginative	imaginative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 literature	amod
3	literature	literature	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wears	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 races	case
5	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 races	amod
6	races	race	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 literature	nmod
7	wears	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 exterior	det
9	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 exterior	amod
10	exterior	exterior	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wears	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 told	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 told	mark
14	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 told	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 told	aux:pass
16	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wears	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	21 heat	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 heat	det
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 heat	punct
20	latent	latent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heat	amod
21	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 told	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 heat	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 told	punct
24	so	so	ADV	_	25 there	advmod
25	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	26 exists	advmod
26	exists	exist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 wears	advcl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 thoughtfulness	det
28	latent	latent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 thoughtfulness	amod
29	thoughtfulness	thoughtfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 exists	obj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 found	cc
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj:pass
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 found	aux:pass
34	often	often	ADV	_	35 found	advmod
35	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wears	conj
36	unexpectedly	unexpectedly	ADV	_	35 found	advmod
37	in	in	ADP	_	39 depths	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 depths	det
39	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 found	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 tale	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 tale	det
42	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 depths	nmod
43	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	47 reveals	obj
44	on	on	ADP	_	46 surface	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 surface	nmod:poss
46	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reveals	obl
47	reveals	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 tale	acl:relcl
48	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	49 disposition	det
49	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 reveals	obj
50	to	to	PART	_	51 deal	mark
51	deal	deal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 disposition	acl
52	with	with	ADP	_	54 problems	case
53	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 problems	amod
54	problems	problem	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 deal	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wear	present	the imaginative literature of early races	a rough exterior			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent exterior=Source
2	tell speech: assert	present · passive		we		of a latent heat	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	exist	present	the imaginative literature of early races not said here	a latent thoughtfulness	there		tree rules
4	find	present · passive		literature	the depths of a tale	often, unexpectedly property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
5	reveal	present		a tale	literature's surface	no disposition obj	tree rules
6	deal	to-infinitive				with hard problems	vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with problem=Theme

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 91

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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 91