The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 1
So ends the _Tain_: Not less, in mirth or spleen, that legend old Primeval battle-chaunt of Erin’s race, Adds yet a second close.
Who acts: Primeval battle, Erin · What happens: end, chaunt, race · To what, where: Tain
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Primeval battle, Erin), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 ends | advmod |
| 2 | ends | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Tain | det |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tain | punct |
| 5 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | obj |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tain | punct |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 less | punct |
| 8 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 less | advmod |
| 9 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 ends | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mirth | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 mirth | case |
| 12 | mirth | mirth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ends | parataxis |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 spleen | cc |
| 14 | spleen | spleen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mirth | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 legend | punct |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 legend | det |
| 17 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mirth | conj |
| 18 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 legend | amod |
| 19 | Primeval | primeval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 battle | amod |
| 20 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 old | conj |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 chaunt | punct |
| 22 | chaunt | chaunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 battle | acl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 race | case |
| 24 | Erin | Erin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 race | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Erin | case |
| 26 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 chaunt | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Adds | punct |
| 28 | Adds | Adds | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 race | appos |
| 29 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 32 close | cc |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 close | det |
| 31 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 32 close | amod |
| 32 | close | close | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Adds | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ends | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | present | the Tain | mirth or spleen and that legend parataxis; less property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality tain=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | chaunt | infinitive | Primeval battle not said here | of Erin's race | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | race | Erin | nom race «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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