The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 13, sentence 53
The last great battle ’twixt the old race and new Would find the same sad ending as the first.’
Who acts: last great battle · What happens: find · To what, where: same sad ending
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (last great battle), 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 | 4 battle | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 3 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 battle | amod |
| 4 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 twixt | punct |
| 6 | twixt | twixt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 battle | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 race | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | amod |
| 9 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | nsubj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 new | cc |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 race | conj |
| 12 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ending | det |
| 15 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ending | amod |
| 16 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 ending | amod |
| 17 | ending | ending | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 first | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 first | det |
| 20 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 find | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | the last great battle and twixt | the same sad ending | as the first; the old race nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent ending=Theme as first=Attribute |
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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