The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 12
The great names of Tyr-Owen and Tyr-Conel had not risen; and 1,800 years had to pass before the foundations were laid of those abbeys and castles now in ruins.
Who acts: 1,800 years · What happens: not rise, have, pass, lay, name · To what, where: great names, ruins, foundations, Tyr Owen
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 (1,800 years), 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 names | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 names | amod |
| 3 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 risen | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Owen | case |
| 5 | Tyr | Tyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Owen | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tyr | punct |
| 7 | Owen | Owen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 names | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 Tyr | cc |
| 9 | Tyr | Tyr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Owen | conj |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Conel | punct |
| 11 | Conel | Conel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Owen | conj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 risen | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 risen | advmod |
| 14 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 had | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 had | cc |
| 17 | 1,800 | 1,800 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 18 years | nummod |
| 18 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 risen | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pass | mark |
| 21 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 had | xcomp |
| 22 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 26 laid | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foundations | det |
| 24 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 laid | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 laid | aux:pass |
| 26 | laid | lay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 pass | advcl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 abbeys | case |
| 28 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 abbeys | det |
| 29 | abbeys | abbey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 laid | obl |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 castles | cc |
| 31 | castles | castle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 abbeys | conj |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 pass | advmod |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 ruins | case |
| 34 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 pass | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rise | past · perfect · passive | the great names of Tyr Owen and Tyr and Conel | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | 1,800 years | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | 1,800 years not said here | ruins | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ruin=Location | |||
| 4 | lay | past · passive | the foundations | of that abbeys and castles | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Result | ||||
| 5 | name | Tyr Owen and Tyr and Conel | nom name «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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