The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

In the ‘Tain’ many passages, besides those which can be called poetical, thus hold their own, apparently but because the trouble of altering them was thus evaded.

Who acts: many passages, trouble · What happens: call, hold, alter, evade · To what, where: own, passages, trouble, many passages · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (many passages, trouble), 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	_	4 Tain	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tain	det
3	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 Tain	punct
4	Tain	tain	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 passages	obl
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Tain	punct
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 passages	amod
7	passages	passage	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 hold	punct
9	besides	besides	ADP	_	10 those	case
10	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 hold	nsubj
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 called	nsubj:pass
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 called	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 called	aux:pass
14	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 those	acl:relcl
15	poetical	poetical	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 called	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 those	punct
17	thus	thus	ADV	_	18 hold	advmod
18	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 passages	acl:relcl
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 own	nmod:poss
20	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hold	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 apparently	punct
22	apparently	apparently	ADV	_	18 hold	advmod
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 evaded	cc
24	because	because	SCONJ	_	32 evaded	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 trouble	det
26	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 evaded	nsubj:pass
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 altering	mark
28	altering	alter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 trouble	acl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 altering	obj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 evaded	aux:pass
31	thus	thus	ADV	_	32 evaded	advmod
32	evaded	evade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 apparently	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passages	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	can · passive			which nsubj:pass; poetical property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
2	hold	infinitive	many passages in the Tain	passages's own	apparently, thus property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme
3	alter	gerund	the trouble not said here	passages = passage		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	evade	past · passive		the trouble	thus property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: subject=Location

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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🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 30