The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 92
The reader of the Tain will be reminded of this truth in proportion as he understands the relative position of the Irish kingdoms at the time it describes.
Who acts: spiritual, position · What happens: remind, understand, describe · To what, where: reader, relative position, time
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, position), 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 | 2 reader | det |
| 2 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reminded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Tain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tain | det |
| 5 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 reader | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 reminded | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 reminded | aux:pass |
| 8 | reminded | remind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 truth | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 truth | det |
| 11 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 reminded | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 proportion | case |
| 13 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 truth | nmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 understands | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 understands | nsubj |
| 16 | understands | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 reminded | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 position | det |
| 18 | relative | relative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 position | amod |
| 19 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 understands | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 kingdoms | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 kingdoms | det |
| 22 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 kingdoms | amod |
| 23 | kingdoms | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 position | nmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 kingdoms | nmod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 describes | nsubj |
| 28 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 time | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 reminded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remind speech: other | future · passive | the reader of the Tain | of this truth in proportion | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of truth=Topic | ||||
| 2 | understand | present | spiritual | the relative position of the Irish kingdoms at the time | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer position=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | position | the time not said here | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent time=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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