The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 29
In each case the earliest existing prose version obviously represents a metrical work earlier still, large fragments of which survive, cropping up in it like sea rocks that indicate the hills submerged.
Who acts: existing prose version, large fragments, sea rocks · What happens: exist, represent, survive, crop up, indicate, submerge · To what, where: metrical work, version, hills
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 (existing prose version, large fragments, sea rocks), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 case | case |
| 2 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represents | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 version | det |
| 5 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 existing | advmod |
| 6 | existing | exist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 version | amod |
| 7 | prose | prose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 version | amod |
| 8 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represents | nsubj |
| 9 | obviously | obviously | ADV | _ | 10 represents | advmod |
| 10 | represents | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 work | det |
| 12 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 work | amod |
| 13 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 represents | obj |
| 14 | earlier | early | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 still | advmod |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 13 work | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fragments | punct |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 fragments | amod |
| 18 | fragments | fragment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 work | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 survive | nsubj |
| 21 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 fragments | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cropping | punct |
| 23 | cropping | crop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 survive | advcl |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 cropping | compound:prt |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 it | case |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 cropping | obl |
| 27 | like | like | ADP | _ | 29 rocks | case |
| 28 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 rocks | compound |
| 29 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 cropping | obl |
| 30 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 indicate | nsubj |
| 31 | indicate | indicate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 rocks | acl:relcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 hills | det |
| 33 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 indicate | obj |
| 34 | submerged | submerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 hills | acl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 represents | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | gerund | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | represent | present | the existing prose version | a metrical work and large fragments | in each case; obviously property | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot work=Theme in case=Attribute | |||
| 3 | survive | present | large fragments | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | crop up | gerund | large fragments not said here | version | like sea rocks | vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||
| 5 | indicate | present | sea rocks | the hills | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hill=Topic | ||||
| 6 | submerge | participle | the hills not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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