The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 60
The most remarkable illustrations of the _Gesa_ will be found in ‘Conary,’ the noble poem of my friend, Sir Samuel Ferguson, who speaks of them as ‘certain sacred injunctions, the violation of which was attended with temporal punishment.
Who acts: Samuel · What happens: find, speak, attend, illustrate · To what, where: remarkable illustrations, Conary, Gesa · 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 (Samuel), 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 | 4 illustrations | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 remarkable | advmod |
| 3 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 illustrations | amod |
| 4 | illustrations | illustration | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 found | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Gesa | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Gesa | det |
| 7 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 8 Gesa | punct |
| 8 | Gesa | Gesa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 illustrations | nmod |
| 9 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 4 illustrations | punct |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 found | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 found | aux:pass |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 Conary | case |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 Conary | punct |
| 15 | Conary | Conary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 poem | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | CCONJ | _ | 20 poem | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 poem | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 poem | amod |
| 20 | poem | poem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 friend | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 friend | nmod:poss |
| 23 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poem | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Sir | punct |
| 25 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Samuel | nmod:desc |
| 26 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 poem | appos |
| 27 | Ferguson | Ferguson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Samuel | flat |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 speaks | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 speaks | nsubj |
| 30 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 Samuel | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 them | case |
| 32 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 speaks | obl |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 injunctions | case |
| 34 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 injunctions | punct |
| 35 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 injunctions | amod |
| 36 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 injunctions | amod |
| 37 | injunctions | injunction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 speaks | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 violation | punct |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 violation | det |
| 40 | violation | violation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 injunctions | appos |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 which | case |
| 42 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 attended | obl |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 attended | aux:pass |
| 44 | attended | attend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 violation | acl:relcl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 punishment | case |
| 46 | temporal | temporal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 punishment | compound |
| 47 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 attended | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future · passive | the remarkable illustrations of the Gesa | Conary | the noble poem of my friend obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | Samuel Sir | of illustrations = illustration; as certain sacred injunctions | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | attend | past · passive | of the violation; with temporal punishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: of which=Theme | |||||
| 4 | illustrate | the Gesa | nom illustration «communication transitive»: of=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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