The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 16, sentence 84
‘The term _Mael_, Mull (or Moyle, as Moore calls it), does not properly apply to the current itself, but to the _Mael_, or bald headland by which it runs.’--_Professor Eugene O’Curry.
Who acts: Moore, term · What happens: call, not apply, run · To what, where: term · 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 (Moore, term), 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 | _ | 22 apply | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 term | det |
| 3 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 apply | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mael | punct |
| 5 | Mael | Mael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 term | appos |
| 6 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mael | punct |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Mull | punct |
| 8 | Mull | Mull | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mael | conj |
| 9 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moyle | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 Moyle | cc |
| 11 | Moyle | Moyle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Mull | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calls | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 calls | mark |
| 14 | Moore | Moore | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 calls | nsubj |
| 15 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 Moyle | acl:relcl |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 calls | obj |
| 17 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moyle | punct |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 term | punct |
| 19 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 apply | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 apply | advmod |
| 21 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 22 apply | advmod |
| 22 | apply | apply | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 current | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 current | det |
| 25 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 apply | obl |
| 26 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 25 current | nmod:unmarked |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mael | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 32 Mael | cc |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 Mael | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Mael | det |
| 31 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mael | punct |
| 32 | Mael | Mael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 apply | parataxis |
| 33 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 32 Mael | punct |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 headland | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 headland | cc |
| 36 | bald | bald | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 headland | amod |
| 37 | headland | headland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 Mael | appos |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 runs | obl |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 runs | nsubj |
| 41 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 headland | acl:relcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 headland | punct |
| 43 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 37 headland | punct |
| 44 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 47 Eugene | punct |
| 45 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 47 Eugene | punct |
| 46 | Professor | Professor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Eugene | nmod:desc |
| 47 | Eugene | Eugene | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Mael | conj |
| 48 | O’Curry | O'Curry | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 Eugene | flat |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 apply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | Moore | term | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not apply | present · do-support | the term | to the current term; the Mael and Eugene Professor parataxis; properly property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | run | present | term | by bald headland | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by which=Trajectory |
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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