The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 57
_ These _Gesa_, or _Geisa_, often as trivial in character as they were rigidly enforced, have a large place in the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times.
Who acts: Geisa · What happens: enforce, have · To what, where: characters, large place, legends, These
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 (Geisa), 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 | _ | 2 These | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gesa | punct |
| 4 | Gesa | Gesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 These | appos |
| 5 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gesa | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 have | cc |
| 8 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Geisa | punct |
| 9 | Geisa | Geisa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 have | nsubj |
| 10 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 9 Geisa | punct |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 trivial | punct |
| 12 | often | often | ADV | _ | 14 trivial | advmod |
| 13 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 trivial | case |
| 14 | trivial | trivial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Geisa | parataxis |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 character | case |
| 16 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 trivial | obl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 enforced | mark |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 enforced | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 enforced | aux:pass |
| 20 | rigidly | rigidly | ADV | _ | 21 enforced | advmod |
| 21 | enforced | enforce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 trivial | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Geisa | punct |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 _ | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 place | det |
| 25 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 place | amod |
| 26 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 legends | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 legends | det |
| 29 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 place | nmod |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 times | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 times | det |
| 32 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 times | amod |
| 33 | pre-Christian | pre-christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 times | amod |
| 34 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 legends | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Gesa | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enforce | past · passive | characters = character | rigidly property | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | present | Geisa | a large place | the legends of the Irish pre-Christian times | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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