The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 32
As regards comparative antiquity the ‘Tain’ must have preceded the Northern work by at least six centuries.
What happens: precede · To what, where: Tain
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 2 regards | case |
| 2 | regards | regards | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 11 preceded | obl |
| 3 | comparative | comparative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 antiquity | amod |
| 4 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 regards | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tain | det |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tain | punct |
| 7 | Tain | tain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preceded | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tain | punct |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 preceded | aux |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 preceded | aux |
| 11 | preceded | precede | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 work | det |
| 13 | Northern | northern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 work | amod |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 preceded | obj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 centuries | case |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 least | case |
| 17 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 six | nmod |
| 18 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 centuries | nummod |
| 19 | centuries | century | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 preceded | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 preceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | must · perfect · passive | the Tain | century | as regards and comparative antiquity; the Northern work obj | tree rules |
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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