The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 17
It is remarkable that while numerous Firbolg monuments, and in some places the race itself, survive, the mediæval genealogies include no descent from the Tuatha de Dannan.
Who acts: Aengus, race, mediæval genealogies · What happens: be, survive, include · To what, where: descent, Tuatha Dannan
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 (Aengus, race, mediæval genealogies), 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 | 3 remarkable | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remarkable | cop |
| 3 | remarkable | remarkable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 monuments | mark |
| 5 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 8 monuments | mark |
| 6 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 monuments | amod |
| 7 | Firbolg | Firbolg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 monuments | compound |
| 8 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remarkable | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 places | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 places | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 places | det |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 monuments | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 race | det |
| 15 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 places | appos |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 race | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 survive | punct |
| 18 | survive | survive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 race | acl:relcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 include | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 genealogies | det |
| 21 | mediæval | mediæval | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 genealogies | amod |
| 22 | genealogies | genealogy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 include | nsubj |
| 23 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 race | acl:relcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 descent | det |
| 25 | descent | descent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 include | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 Dannan | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Dannan | det |
| 28 | Tuatha | Tuatha | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Dannan | compound |
| 29 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tuatha | flat |
| 30 | Dannan | Dannan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 descent | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remarkable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Aengus | numerous Firbolg monuments and some places advcl; remarkable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | survive | infinitive | the race Aengus not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | include | present | the mediæval genealogies | no descent | the Tuatha Dannan | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent descent=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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