The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 151
• p. 17: Added opening single quotation mark before phrase “Their singing is the best all Uladh boasts” and at the start of the following stanza.
Who acts: singing, Uladh, marks · What happens: add, open, be, boast, follow, sing · To what, where: •, single quotation mark, phrase, stanza · 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: who acts (singing, Uladh, marks), 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 | 17 | 17 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 • | appos |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Added | punct |
| 5 | Added | add | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 • | acl |
| 6 | opening | open | 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 opening | obj |
| 10 | before | before | ADP | _ | 11 phrase | case |
| 11 | phrase | phrase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 opening | obl |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 best | punct |
| 13 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 singing | nmod:poss |
| 14 | singing | singing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 best | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 best | det |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 phrase | parataxis |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 Uladh | det |
| 19 | Uladh | Uladh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 boasts | nsubj |
| 20 | boasts | boast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 best | acl:relcl |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 boasts | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 start | cc |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 start | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 start | det |
| 25 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 boasts | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 stanza | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 stanza | det |
| 28 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 stanza | case |
| 29 | stanza | stanza | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 start | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 • | 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 | open | gerund | single quotation mark | phrase | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent mark=Theme before phrase=Location | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | marks's singing | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | boast speech: other in a quote | present | all Uladh | the start of the stanza conj | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | sing in a quote | marks = mark | nom singing «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | start | the stanza | nom start «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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