The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 145
There are some errors and inconsistencies in the rendering of single and double quotation marks in nested dialogue, especially in the long narration by Fergus starting on page 138.
Who acts: errors, long narration, Fergus · What happens: be, nest, start, render, narrate · To what, where: page, single quotation marks
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 (errors, long narration, Fergus), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 errors | det |
| 4 | errors | error | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 inconsistencies | cc |
| 6 | inconsistencies | inconsistency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 errors | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 rendering | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 rendering | det |
| 9 | rendering | rendering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 errors | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 marks | case |
| 11 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 marks | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 double | cc |
| 13 | double | double | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 single | conj |
| 14 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marks | compound |
| 15 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 rendering | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 dialogue | case |
| 17 | nested | nest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 dialogue | amod |
| 18 | dialogue | dialogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 marks | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 narration | punct |
| 20 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 24 narration | advmod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 narration | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 narration | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 narration | amod |
| 24 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dialogue | appos |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Fergus | case |
| 26 | Fergus | Fergus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 narration | nmod |
| 27 | starting | start | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 narration | acl |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 page | case |
| 29 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 starting | obl |
| 30 | 138 | 138 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 29 page | flat |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | some errors in the rendering of single quotation marks in nested dialogue and inconsistencies | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nest | participle | vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | start | gerund | the long narration by Fergus not said here | page | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | render | single quotation marks in nested dialogue | nom rendering «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | narrate | Fergus | nom narration «communication transitive»: by=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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