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The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 1, sentence 99

All that their country had been they forgot; and the near future they looked on through what the Tain calls ‘a mist of imbecility,’ and attributes to witchcraft.

Who acts: country, fortunes, near future, Tain · What happens: be, forget, look on, call, attribute, mist · To what, where: mist, imbecility · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (country, fortunes, near future, Tain), 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

det:predetmarknmod:possnsubjauxadvclnsubjpunctccdetamodnsubjnsubjparataxiscompound:prtcaseobldetnsubjacl:relclpunctdetobjcasenmodpunctpunctccconjcaseoblpunctrootAllDETthatSCONJtheirPRONcountryNOUNhadAUXbeenVERBtheyPRONforgotVERB;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETnearADJfutureNOUNtheyPRONlookedVERBonADPthroughADPwhatPRONtheDETTainPROPNcallsVERB‘PUNCTaDETmistNOUNofADPimbecilityNOUN,PUNCT’PUNCTandCCONJattributesVERBtoADPwitchcraftNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AllallDETPronType=Tot8 forgotdet:predet
2thatthatSCONJ_6 beenmark
3theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 countrynmod:poss
4countrycountryNOUNNumber=Sing6 beennsubj
5hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 beenaux
6beenbeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part8 forgotadvcl
7theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 forgotnsubj
8forgotforgetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
9;;PUNCT_15 lookedpunct
10andandCCONJ_15 lookedcc
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 futuredet
12nearnearADJDegree=Pos13 futureamod
13futurefutureNOUNNumber=Sing15 lookednsubj
14theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs15 lookednsubj
15lookedlookVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 forgotparataxis
16ononADP_15 lookedcompound:prt
17throughthroughADP_18 whatcase
18whatwhatPRONPronType=Rel15 lookedobl
19thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art20 Taindet
20TainTainPROPNNumber=Sing21 callsnsubj
21callscallVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin18 whatacl:relcl
22‘'PUNCT_24 mistpunct
23aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 mistdet
24mistmistNOUNNumber=Sing21 callsobj
25ofofADP_26 imbecilitycase
26imbecilityimbecilityNOUNNumber=Sing24 mistnmod
27,,PUNCT_28 ’punct
28’'PUNCT_24 mistpunct
29andandCCONJ_30 attributescc
30attributesattributeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 callsconj
31totoADP_32 witchcraftcase
32witchcraftwitchcraftNOUNNumber=Sing30 attributesobl
33..PUNCT_8 forgotpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1bepast · perfectfortunes's countryvn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2forgetpastfortunes = fortunetree rules
3look onpastthe near futurefortunes = fortune nsubj; what oblvn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through what=Theme
4callpresentthe Taina mist of imbecilityvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mist=Recipient
5attributepresentthe Tain not said hereto witchcrafttree rules
6mistimbecilitynom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=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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