The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 28
Between the Irish and such Scandinavian legends as the celebrated ‘Story of the Volsungs and Niblings’ there is one striking resemblance.
Who acts: one striking resemblance · What happens: celebrate, be, strike · To what, where: Irish Scandinavian legends
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 (one striking resemblance), 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 | Between | between | ADP | _ | 7 legends | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legends | det |
| 3 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legends | amod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 such | cc |
| 5 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Irish | conj |
| 6 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legends | amod |
| 7 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 is | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 Story | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Story | det |
| 10 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 Story | amod |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 celebrated | punct |
| 12 | Story | Story | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 legends | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Volsungs | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Volsungs | det |
| 15 | Volsungs | volsung | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 legends | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 Niblings | cc |
| 17 | Niblings | nibling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Volsungs | conj |
| 18 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 15 Volsungs | case |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 resemblance | nummod |
| 22 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 resemblance | amod |
| 23 | resemblance | resemblance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | celebrate | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | be | present | one striking resemblance | the Irish Scandinavian legends as the celebrated Story of the Volsungs and Niblings; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between legend=Location | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: 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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