The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 106
_ The fine exacted for various offences by the Brehon law.
What happens: exact · To what, where: fine
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: 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 exacted | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fine | det |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 exacted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | exacted | exact | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 offences | case |
| 6 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 offences | amod |
| 7 | offences | offence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exacted | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 law | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 law | det |
| 10 | Brehon | Brehon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 law | compound |
| 11 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exacted | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exacted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exact | participle | the fine | for various offences; by the Brehon law | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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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