The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 94
Her king was the subtlest and most powerful of the Irish kings; and her celebrated ‘Red Branch Knights’ were the most gallant order of Irish chivalry.
Who acts: king · What happens: be, celebrate · To what, where: Red Branch Knights, gallant order
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 (king), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 king | nmod:poss |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 subtlest | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 subtlest | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 subtlest | det |
| 5 | subtlest | subtle | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 26 order | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 powerful | cc |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 powerful | advmod |
| 8 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 subtlest | conj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 kings | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kings | det |
| 11 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 kings | amod |
| 12 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 powerful | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 celebrated | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 celebrated | cc |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 celebrated | nmod:poss |
| 16 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 subtlest | parataxis |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Knights | punct |
| 18 | Red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Knights | amod |
| 19 | Branch | Branch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Knights | compound |
| 20 | Knights | Knight | PROPN | Number=Plur | 16 celebrated | obl |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 Knights | punct |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 order | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 order | det |
| 24 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 25 gallant | advmod |
| 25 | gallant | gallant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 order | amod |
| 26 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 chivalry | case |
| 28 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 chivalry | amod |
| 29 | chivalry | chivalry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 order | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Ulster's king | subtle property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Ulster's king not said here | of the Irish kings | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | celebrate | participle | Red Branch Knights | Ulster nmod:poss | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | the gallant order | of Irish chivalry | 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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