The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 26
Landor’s ‘Hellenics’ represent many of the least known Greek legends, and his ‘Gebir’ might be taken for a recovered Greek ‘lesser epic;’ but with such poems the Irish legends can boast little affinity.
Who acts: Hellenics, Irish legends · What happens: represent, know, take, recover, boast · To what, where: many, Gebir, little affinity
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 (Hellenics, Irish legends), 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 | Landor | Landor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Hellenics | nmod:poss |
| 2 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 1 Landor | case |
| 3 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hellenics | punct |
| 4 | Hellenics | hellenic | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 represent | nsubj |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hellenics | punct |
| 6 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 represent | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legends | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 legends | det |
| 10 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 legends | advmod |
| 11 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 legends | amod |
| 12 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 legends | amod |
| 13 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 many | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 taken | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 taken | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Gebir | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gebir | punct |
| 18 | Gebir | Gebir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 Gebir | punct |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 taken | aux |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 taken | aux:pass |
| 22 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 represent | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 Greek | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Greek | det |
| 25 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 Greek | amod |
| 26 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 taken | obl |
| 27 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 lesser | punct |
| 28 | lesser | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 26 Greek | amod |
| 29 | epic | epic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 lesser | amod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 boast | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 40 boast | punct |
| 32 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 boast | cc |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 poems | case |
| 34 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 poems | amod |
| 35 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 boast | obl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 legends | det |
| 37 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 legends | amod |
| 38 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 boast | nsubj |
| 39 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 boast | aux |
| 40 | boast | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 represent | parataxis |
| 41 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 affinity | amod |
| 42 | affinity | affinity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 boast | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 represent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | represent | present | Landor's Hellenics | many of the known Greek legends | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot many=Theme | ||||
| 2 | know | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | take | might · passive | legend's Gebir | for a recovered Greek | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for greek=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | recover | participle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | boast speech: other | can | the Irish legends | little affinity | with such poems | 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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