The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 71
_ The ‘Lia Fail,’ or ‘Stone of Destiny,’ was the stone on which the Irish ‘Chief Kings,’ or Ard-Righs, were crowned at Tara.
Who acts: Lia Fail · What happens: be, crown · To what, where: stone, Irish Chief Kings
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 (Lia Fail), 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 | _ | 5 Fail | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fail | det |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lia | punct |
| 4 | Lia | Lia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fail | compound |
| 5 | Fail | Fail | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stone | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fail | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fail | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 Stone | cc |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 Stone | punct |
| 10 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Fail | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Destiny | case |
| 12 | Destiny | Destiny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Stone | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fail | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Fail | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 stone | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 stone | det |
| 17 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 crowned | obl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Kings | det |
| 21 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Kings | amod |
| 22 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 Irish | punct |
| 23 | Chief | Chief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Kings | compound |
| 24 | Kings | King | PROPN | Number=Plur | 33 crowned | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kings | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kings | punct |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Ard | cc |
| 28 | Ard | Ard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Kings | conj |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 Righs | punct |
| 30 | Righs | Righs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Ard | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Kings | punct |
| 32 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 crowned | aux:pass |
| 33 | crowned | crown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 stone | acl:relcl |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 Tara | case |
| 35 | Tara | Tara | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 crowned | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 stone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Lia Fail or Stone of Destiny | the stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | crown | past · passive | the Irish Chief Kings or Ard and Righs | the stone | at Tara | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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