The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 47
They are found in many parts of Ireland; and much has been written on them by the most learned Irish antiquarians of recent times, especially by Bishop Graves.
What happens: find, write, learn · To what, where: characters, many parts, Irish antiquarians
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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 found | aux:pass |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 parts | case |
| 5 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 parts | amod |
| 6 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 found | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Ireland | case |
| 8 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 parts | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 written | cc |
| 11 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 written | advmod |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | aux |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 written | aux:pass |
| 14 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 written | obl |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 20 learned | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 learned | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 learned | advmod |
| 20 | learned | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 written | advcl |
| 21 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 antiquarians | amod |
| 22 | antiquarians | antiquarian | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 learned | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 times | case |
| 24 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 times | amod |
| 25 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 antiquarians | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Graves | punct |
| 27 | especially | especially | ADV | _ | 30 Graves | advmod |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 Graves | case |
| 29 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Graves | compound |
| 30 | Graves | Grave | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 learned | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present · passive | characters = character | many parts of Ireland | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | ||||
| 2 | write | present · perfect · passive | on characters = character | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: on they=Destination | |||||
| 3 | learn | past | Irish antiquarians of recent times | by Bishop Graves | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent antiquarian=Topic |
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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