The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 163
• p. 164: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “this Island should be theirs!”
What happens: add, close, be · To what, where: •, single quotation mark, marks · 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 | 164 | 164 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 • | list |
| 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 | 9 mark | nmod |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 Island | punct |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 Island | det |
| 14 | Island | Island | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 phrase | appos |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 theirs | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 theirs | cop |
| 17 | theirs | their | PRON | Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 1 • | parataxis |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 • | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 • | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: express | 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 | is a in a quote | should | marks = mark | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg78491/16/163/