The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 27
The best of the Roman have perished, except those which Livy preserved by appropriating, and which, notwithstanding their large element of fiction, constitute perhaps the most true, because the most characteristic portion of the earlier Roman history.
What happens: perish, preserve, appropriate, notwithstand, constitute · To what, where: best, large element
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: 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 | 2 best | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Roman | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Roman | det |
| 5 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 best | obl |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 perished | aux |
| 7 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 those | punct |
| 9 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 those | case |
| 10 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 perished | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 preserved | nsubj |
| 12 | Livy | Livy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 preserved | nsubj |
| 13 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 those | acl:relcl |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 appropriating | mark |
| 15 | appropriating | appropriate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 preserved | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 notwithstanding | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 notwithstanding | cc |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 notwithstanding | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 notwithstanding | punct |
| 20 | notwithstanding | notwithstand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 perished | advcl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 element | nmod:poss |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 element | amod |
| 23 | element | element | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 notwithstanding | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fiction | case |
| 25 | fiction | fiction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 element | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 constitute | punct |
| 27 | constitute | constitute | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 notwithstanding | conj |
| 28 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 31 true | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 true | det |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 true | advmod |
| 31 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 constitute | xcomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 portion | punct |
| 33 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 37 portion | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 portion | det |
| 35 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 36 characteristic | advmod |
| 36 | characteristic | characteristic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 portion | amod |
| 37 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 perished | parataxis |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 history | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 history | det |
| 40 | earlier | early | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 42 history | amod |
| 41 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 history | amod |
| 42 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 portion | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 perished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | present · perfect · passive | the best | except those; the characteristic portion of the earlier Roman history parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | preserve | past | which nsubj; Livy nsubj | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | appropriate | gerund | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | notwithstand | gerund | poems's large element of fiction | which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | constitute | infinitive | true property | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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