The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 46
_ The Ogham characters are a species of alphabet, or as some call them cypher, cut upon stones, or wooden staves.
Who acts: Ogham characters, some · What happens: be, call, cut · To what, where: species, characters, wooden staves · 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 (Ogham characters, some), 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 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 7 species | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 characters | det |
| 3 | Ogham | Ogham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 characters | compound |
| 4 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 species | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 species | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 species | det |
| 7 | species | species | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 alphabet | case |
| 9 | alphabet | alphabet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 species | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 call | mark |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 call | nsubj |
| 14 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | advcl |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 call | obj |
| 16 | cypher | cypher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 call | xcomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 call | punct |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 species | conj |
| 19 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 stones | case |
| 20 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 staves | punct |
| 22 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 24 staves | cc |
| 23 | wooden | wooden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 staves | amod |
| 24 | staves | stave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 cut | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 species | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Ogham characters | a species | of alphabet | tree rules | |||
| 2 | call | present | some | characters = character | cypher xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||
| 3 | cut | participle | the Ogham characters not said here | wooden staves | upon stones | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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