The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 19
The ‘Children of Lir,’ and the ‘Sons of Usnach’[5] are two of those tales which in Ireland were always known as ‘the Three Sorrows of Song.’
Who acts: Sons, Song · What happens: be, know, sorrow · To what, where: two, tales, Ireland
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 (Sons, Song), 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 | 5 Lir | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Lir | case |
| 5 | Lir | Lir | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lir | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lir | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Sons | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sons | det |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 Sons | punct |
| 11 | Sons | Son | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 two | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Usnach | case |
| 13 | Usnach | Usnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sons | nmod |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 11 Sons | case |
| 15 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 16 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 Sons | appos |
| 17 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 16 5 | punct |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 two | cop |
| 19 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 Lir | list |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tales | case |
| 21 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 tales | det |
| 22 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 two | nmod |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 known | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 Ireland | case |
| 25 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 known | obl |
| 26 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 known | aux:pass |
| 27 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 28 known | advmod |
| 28 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tales | acl:relcl |
| 29 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 Sorrows | case |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Sorrows | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Sorrows | det |
| 32 | Three | Three | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sorrows | compound |
| 33 | Sorrows | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 known | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Song | case |
| 35 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Sorrows | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lir | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lir | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Sons of Usnach | two | of that tales | tree rules | |||
| 2 | know | past · passive | that tales | Ireland | as the Three Sorrows of Song; always property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: which=Stimulus as sorrow=Attribute | |||
| 4 | sorrow | Song | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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