The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 148
• p. vi: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “a famous scribe named Maelmire, who was killed there in 1106.”
What happens: add, close, name, kill · To what, where: •, single quotation mark, famous scribe, 1106 · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | • | • | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | p. | P. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 • | flat |
| 3 | vi | VI | NUM | NumForm=Roman NumType=Card | 1 • | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
| 5 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 • | acl |
| 6 | closing | close | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 Added | advcl |
| 7 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 mark | amod |
| 8 | quotation | quotation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mark | compound |
| 9 | mark | mark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obj |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 phrase | case |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 closing | obl |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scribe | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scribe | det |
| 14 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 scribe | amod |
| 15 | scribe | scribe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | appos |
| 16 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 scribe | acl |
| 17 | Maelmire | Maelmire | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 named | xcomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 killed | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 killed | aux:pass |
| 21 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 scribe | acl |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 killed | advmod |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 1106 | case |
| 24 | 1106 | 1106 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 21 killed | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 scribe | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 scribe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | participle | • not said here | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | close | gerund | single quotation mark | after phrase | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 3 | name in a quote | participle | a famous scribe not said here | Maelmire xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | kill in a quote | past · passive | a famous scribe | 1106; there | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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