The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 25
An eminent Irish scholar asserts that the ‘Tain bo Cuailgné is to Irish history what the Argonautic expedition, and the Seven against Thebes, are to the Grecian.’
Who acts: eminent Irish scholar, Tain bo Cuailgné, Seven Thebes · What happens: assert, be
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 (eminent Irish scholar, Tain bo Cuailgné, Seven Thebes), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 scholar | det |
| 2 | eminent | eminent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scholar | amod |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 scholar | amod |
| 4 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asserts | nsubj |
| 5 | asserts | assert | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 history | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 history | det |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 history | punct |
| 9 | Tain | Tain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cuailgné | compound |
| 10 | bo | bo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Cuailgné | compound |
| 11 | Cuailgné | Cuailgné | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 history | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 history | cop |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 history | case |
| 14 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 history | amod |
| 15 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asserts | ccomp |
| 16 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 history | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 expedition | det |
| 18 | Argonautic | argonautic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 expedition | amod |
| 19 | expedition | expedition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 what | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Grecian | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 Grecian | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Thebes | det |
| 23 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 Thebes | nummod |
| 24 | against | against | ADP | _ | 25 Thebes | case |
| 25 | Thebes | thebe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 Grecian | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Thebes | punct |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 Grecian | cop |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 Grecian | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Grecian | det |
| 30 | Grecian | grecian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 asserts | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asserts | punct |
| 32 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 asserts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assert | present | a eminent Irish scholar | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | Tain bo Cuailgné | to the Irish history; what the Argonautic expedition conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the Seven Thebes | grecian property | tree rules |
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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