The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 10
The ‘Children of Lir’ is perhaps the chief memorial of that Tuatha de Dannan race, which had held sway for two centuries before the invasion of the Gael, and yet were themselves regarded as intruders by the Firbolgs.
Who acts: Children, Firbolgs · What happens: be, hold, regard, invade · To what, where: chief memorial, Tuatha Dannan race, Gael
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Children, Firbolgs), 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 | 3 Children | det |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Children | punct |
| 3 | Children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 memorial | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lir | case |
| 5 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Children | nmod |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Children | punct |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 memorial | cop |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 11 memorial | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 memorial | det |
| 10 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 memorial | amod |
| 11 | memorial | memorial | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 race | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 race | nsubj |
| 14 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 race | compound |
| 15 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Tuatha | flat |
| 16 | Dannan | Dannan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 race | compound |
| 17 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 memorial | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 held | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 held | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 held | aux |
| 21 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 race | acl:relcl |
| 22 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 centuries | case |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 centuries | nummod |
| 25 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 held | obl |
| 26 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 invasion | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 invasion | det |
| 28 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 held | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Gael | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Gael | det |
| 31 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 invasion | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 regarded | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 regarded | cc |
| 34 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 37 regarded | advmod |
| 35 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 regarded | aux:pass |
| 36 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 were | obj |
| 37 | regarded | regard | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 memorial | conj |
| 38 | as | as | ADP | _ | 39 intruders | case |
| 39 | intruders | intruder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 regarded | obl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 Firbolgs | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Firbolgs | det |
| 42 | Firbolgs | Firbolgs | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 regarded | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 memorial | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Children of Lir | the chief memorial | of Tuatha Dannan race that; perhaps property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hold | past · perfect · passive | Tuatha Dannan race that | before the invasion of the Gael; century | sway obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme sway=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | regard | past · passive | the Firbolgs | yet | as intruders | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP PP.value»: agent=Agent as intruder=Value | |||
| 4 | invade | the Gael | nom invasion «act 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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