The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 11, sentence 201
Since Gods, like men, grow witless, be it so!
What happens: grow, be · To what, where: synod
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 11. 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 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 2 Gods | case |
| 2 | Gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 grow | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 men | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 men | case |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Gods | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Gods | punct |
| 7 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | witless | witless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 grow | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 it | punct |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 it | cop |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 grow | obl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 grow | advmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | since Gods and men | witless property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | infinitive | synod | 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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