The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 15, sentence 35
What thing war is I ought to know.
What happens: know
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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 war | compound |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ought | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 ought | nsubj |
| 6 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 know | mark |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ought | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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