The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 95
The more astonishing, consequently, was the utter prostration, a defeat without a battle, into which she so suddenly fell.
Who acts: astonishing, Ulster · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: utter prostration
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 (astonishing, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 astonishing | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 astonishing | advmod |
| 3 | astonishing | astonishing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prostration | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonishing | punct |
| 5 | consequently | consequently | ADV | _ | 3 astonishing | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 astonishing | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prostration | cop |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prostration | det |
| 9 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 prostration | amod |
| 10 | prostration | prostration | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 defeat | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 defeat | det |
| 13 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prostration | conj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 16 battle | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 battle | det |
| 16 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 defeat | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 fell | obl |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 22 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 prostration | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 prostration | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the astonishing | the utter prostration and a defeat without a battle | a defeat without a battle conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | fall | past | Ulster | the utter prostration and a defeat without a battle | suddenly property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into which=Result |
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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