The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 72
It was subsequently used for the same purpose during many centuries in Scotland, to which it had been brought by the Dalriad Irish recorded by Bede, at the coronation of her Kings of Irish race.
Who acts: Irish coronation · What happens: use, bring, record, coronate · To what, where: Scoti, 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 (Irish coronation), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 used | aux:pass |
| 3 | subsequently | subsequently | ADV | _ | 4 used | advmod |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 purpose | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 purpose | det |
| 7 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 purpose | amod |
| 8 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl |
| 9 | during | during | ADP | _ | 11 centuries | case |
| 10 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 centuries | amod |
| 11 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 used | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 Scotland | case |
| 13 | Scotland | Scotland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 centuries | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 brought | punct |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 brought | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 brought | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 brought | aux:pass |
| 20 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 used | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 coronation | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 coronation | det |
| 23 | Dalriad | Dalriad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 coronation | nsubj |
| 24 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 coronation | amod |
| 25 | recorded | record | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 coronation | parataxis |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 Bede | case |
| 27 | Bede | Bede | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 recorded | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 coronation | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 coronation | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 coronation | det |
| 31 | coronation | coronation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 brought | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Kings | case |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 Kings | nmod:poss |
| 34 | Kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 coronation | nmod |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 race | case |
| 36 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 race | amod |
| 37 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Kings | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past · passive | Scoti | century | for the same purpose; subsequently property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: subject=Theme for purpose=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the Irish coronation Dalriad of Dalriad's Kings of Irish race | Scoti | which obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to which=Destination | |||
| 3 | record | participle | by Bede | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | coronate | Dalriad's Kings of Irish race | nom coronation «event 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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