The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 31
That Scandinavian tale has a keen-edged, concentrated might about it, together with, at least in Mr. Morris’s translation, a corresponding force and an exquisite beauty of style; and in these respects I think it superior to the ‘Tain:’ but the latter will probably be deemed by impartial readers to have the advantage in imagination, varied conception of character, and pathos.
Who acts: Scandinavian tale, I, impartial readers, Morris · What happens: have, edge, concentrate, correspond, think, deem · To what, where: translation, least, respects, latter, advantage, imagination
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 (Scandinavian tale, I, impartial readers, Morris), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tale | det |
| 2 | Scandinavian | scandinavian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tale | amod |
| 3 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 translation | det |
| 6 | keen | keen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 edged | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 keen | punct |
| 8 | edged | edge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 translation | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 concentrated | punct |
| 10 | concentrated | concentrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 edged | conj |
| 11 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 it | aux |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 concentrated | obl:agent |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 together | punct |
| 15 | together | together | ADV | _ | 8 edged | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 together | fixed |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 translation | punct |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 least | case |
| 19 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 translation | nmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 translation | case |
| 21 | Mr. | Mr. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Morris | nmod:desc |
| 22 | Morris | Morris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 translation | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 Morris | case |
| 24 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 force | punct |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 force | det |
| 27 | corresponding | correspond | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 force | amod |
| 28 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 translation | appos |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beauty | cc |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 beauty | det |
| 31 | exquisite | exquisite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beauty | amod |
| 32 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 force | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 style | case |
| 34 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 beauty | nmod |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 think | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 think | cc |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 respects | case |
| 38 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 39 respects | det |
| 39 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 think | obl |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 think | nsubj |
| 41 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | parataxis |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 think | obj |
| 43 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 think | xcomp |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 Tain | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 Tain | det |
| 46 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 47 Tain | punct |
| 47 | Tain | tain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 superior | obl |
| 48 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 49 ’ | punct |
| 49 | ’ | ' | SYM | Number=Sing | 4 has | obj |
| 50 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 56 deemed | cc |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 latter | det |
| 52 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 deemed | nsubj |
| 53 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 56 deemed | aux |
| 54 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 56 deemed | advmod |
| 55 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 56 deemed | aux:pass |
| 56 | deemed | deem | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 has | conj |
| 57 | by | by | ADP | _ | 59 readers | case |
| 58 | impartial | impartial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 59 readers | amod |
| 59 | readers | reader | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 deemed | obl |
| 60 | to | to | PART | _ | 61 have | mark |
| 61 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 56 deemed | advcl |
| 62 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 63 advantage | det |
| 63 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 have | obj |
| 64 | in | in | ADP | _ | 65 imagination | case |
| 65 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 61 have | obl |
| 66 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 68 conception | punct |
| 67 | varied | varied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 68 conception | amod |
| 68 | conception | conception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 imagination | conj |
| 69 | of | of | ADP | _ | 70 character | case |
| 70 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 68 conception | nmod |
| 71 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 73 pathos | punct |
| 72 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 73 pathos | cc |
| 73 | pathos | pathos | NOUN | Number=Sing | 65 imagination | conj |
| 74 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | that Scandinavian tale | Morris Mr.'s translation | least | tree rules | |||
| 2 | edge | participle | that Scandinavian tale not said here | together property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | concentrate | participle | that Scandinavian tale not said here | tale obl:agent | vn focus-87.1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | correspond | gerund | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | think speech: other | present | I | translation | this respects | superior property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme | ||
| 6 | deem | future · passive | impartial readers | the latter | probably property | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent subject=Attribute | |||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | impartial readers not said here | the advantage | imagination and varied conception of character and pathos | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Patient | |||
| 8 | translate | Morris Mr. | nom translation «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | conceive | character | nom conception «cognition transitive»: of=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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