The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 165
• p. 203: Added closing single quotation mark after phrase “Is past since northward to the war we marched.”
Who acts: we · What happens: add, close, be, march · To what, where: •, single quotation mark, war · 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 (we), 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 | 203 | 203 | 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 past | punct |
| 13 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 past | cop |
| 14 | past | past | ADV | _ | 6 closing | advmod |
| 15 | since | since | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 16 | northward | northward | ADV | _ | 19 war | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 war | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 war | det |
| 19 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 past | obl |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 marched | nsubj |
| 21 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 war | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 • | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | 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 | close | gerund | single quotation mark | after phrase | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | since the war | past property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | march in a quote | past | we | the war not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme war=Trajectory |
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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