The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 49
The Irish, originally ‘Scoti,’ were so called from Scota.
What happens: call · To what, where: Irish Scoti, Scota · 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Scoti | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Scoti | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Irish | punct |
| 4 | originally | originally | ADV | _ | 6 Scoti | advmod |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scoti | punct |
| 6 | Scoti | Scoti | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scoti | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Scoti | punct |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 called | aux:pass |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 called | advmod |
| 11 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 Scota | case |
| 13 | Scota | Scota | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 called | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · passive | the Irish Scoti | Scota | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from scota=Source |
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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