The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 98
At the critical moment of her fortunes her great ones began to babble and talk nonsense.
What happens: begin, babble, talk · To what, where: nonsense
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: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 3 | critical | critical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 moment | amod |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 began | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fortunes | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 moment | nmod |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ones | nmod:poss |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 ones | amod |
| 10 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fortunes | appos |
| 11 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 babble | mark |
| 13 | babble | babble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 began | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 talk | cc |
| 15 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 babble | conj |
| 16 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 talk | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | moment | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | babble | to-infinitive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | talk | infinitive | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient |
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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