The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 61
The agents in inflicting such retribution appear in the form of Fairies.’
Who acts: agents · What happens: inflict, appear, form · To what, where: such retribution, form, Fairies
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 (agents), 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 | 2 agents | det |
| 2 | agents | agent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 appear | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 4 inflicting | mark |
| 4 | inflicting | inflict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 agents | acl |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 retribution | amod |
| 6 | retribution | retribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inflicting | obj |
| 7 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 form | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 form | det |
| 10 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 appear | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Fairies | case |
| 12 | Fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 form | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 appear | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inflict | gerund | the agents not said here | such retribution | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | the agents | the form of Fairies | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in form=Location | ||||
| 3 | form | Fairies | nom form «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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