The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 20
Critics who regard the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné’ but as a single fragment of a great Irish epic, include the second among the remaining fragments.
Who acts: Critics · What happens: regard, include · To what, where: Tain, second, Critics
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 (Critics), 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 | Critics | critic | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 regard | nsubj |
| 3 | regard | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Critics | acl:relcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tain | det |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tain | punct |
| 6 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 regard | obj |
| 7 | bo | bo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Tain | flat |
| 8 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 bo | flat |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Tain | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 fragment | cc |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 fragment | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fragment | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fragment | amod |
| 14 | fragment | fragment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 regard | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 great | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 great | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fragment | nmod |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 epic | amod |
| 19 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 great | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 include | punct |
| 21 | include | include | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 great | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 second | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 include | obj |
| 24 | among | among | ADP | _ | 27 fragments | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 fragments | det |
| 26 | remaining | remaining | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 fragments | amod |
| 27 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 second | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Critics | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | regard | present | Critics | the Tain | a single fragment of a great conj | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tain=Theme | |||
| 2 | include | present | Critics not said here | the second among the remaining fragments | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent second=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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