The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 14, sentence 42
Not difficult the emprise; but whose the gain?
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 14. 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 difficult | advmod |
| 2 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 emprise | det |
| 4 | emprise | emprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 difficult | nsubj |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 difficult | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 gain | cc |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 9 gain | nmod:poss |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gain | det |
| 9 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 difficult | conj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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