The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 93
Connaught was the most barbaric as well as the poorest of them all; while Ulster had even then reached that superiority in strength and wealth, and in civilisation both civil and military, which for so many centuries she retained.
Who acts: Connaught, Ulster · What happens: be, have, reach, retain · To what, where: barbaric, superiority, strength
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 (Connaught, Ulster), 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 | Connaught | Connaught | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 barbaric | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 barbaric | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 barbaric | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 barbaric | advmod |
| 5 | barbaric | barbaric | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 10 poorest | cc |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 poorest | det |
| 10 | poorest | poor | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 barbaric | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 poorest | obl |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 had | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | Ulster | Ulster | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 barbaric | parataxis |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 20 reached | advmod |
| 19 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 reached | advmod |
| 20 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 had | advcl |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 superiority | det |
| 22 | superiority | superiority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reached | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 strength | case |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 superiority | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wealth | cc |
| 26 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 strength | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 civil | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 civil | cc |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 civilisation | case |
| 30 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 civil | obl |
| 31 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 32 civil | cc:preconj |
| 32 | civil | civil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 barbaric | parataxis |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 military | cc |
| 34 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 civil | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 retained | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 retained | nsubj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 centuries | case |
| 38 | so | so | ADV | _ | 39 many | advmod |
| 39 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 centuries | amod |
| 40 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 retained | obl |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 retained | nsubj |
| 42 | retained | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 civil | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 barbaric | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Connaught | the barbaric | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Connaught not said here | of readers = reader | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past | Ulster | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reach | past | Ulster not said here | that superiority | strength and wealth | then | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent superiority=Theme | ||
| 5 | retain | past | century | which nsubj; Ulster nsubj | 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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