The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 127
To this island properly belongs the legend illustrated by Calderon in his ‘Purgatory of St. Patrick,’ so admirably presented to the English reader by my lamented friend, the late Denis Florence MacCarthy.
What happens: belong, illustrate, present, lament · To what, where: legend, Purgatory, English reader
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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 island | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 island | det |
| 3 | island | island | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belongs | obl |
| 4 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 belongs | advmod |
| 5 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 belongs | obj |
| 8 | illustrated | illustrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 legend | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 Calderon | case |
| 10 | Calderon | Calderon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 illustrated | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 Purgatory | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 Purgatory | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 Purgatory | punct |
| 14 | Purgatory | purgatory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 illustrated | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 St. | case |
| 16 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Purgatory | nmod |
| 17 | Patrick | Patrick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 St. | flat |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 legend | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 belongs | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 presented | advmod |
| 21 | admirably | admirably | ADV | _ | 22 presented | advmod |
| 22 | presented | present | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 belongs | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 reader | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 reader | det |
| 25 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 reader | amod |
| 26 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 presented | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 friend | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 friend | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 friend | amod |
| 30 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 presented | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 MacCarthy | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 MacCarthy | det |
| 33 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 MacCarthy | amod |
| 34 | Denis | Denis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Florence | compound |
| 35 | Florence | Florence | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 MacCarthy | compound |
| 36 | MacCarthy | MacCarthy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 friend | appos |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | the legend | to this island; properly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | illustrate | participle | the legend not said here | Calderon's Purgatory of St. | by Calderon | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | present | participle | the English reader | by my lamented friend; admirably property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to reader=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lament | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: 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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