The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 17
Now all was changed; Ill choice; if chance, ill-omened.
What happens: change, omen · To what, where: all, chance
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 15. 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 changed | advmod |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 changed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changed | aux:pass |
| 4 | changed | change | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 choice | punct |
| 6 | Ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 choice | amod |
| 7 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 changed | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 omened | mark |
| 10 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 omened | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 chance | punct |
| 12 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 omened | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ill | punct |
| 14 | omened | omen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 changed | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | past · passive | all | now | Ill choice obl | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | omen a condition, not said to happen | participle · passive | chance | 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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