The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 35
The highest inspiration of the Bards seems to have passed away not long after Ireland became Christian.
Who acts: highest inspiration, Ireland · What happens: seem, pass away, become, inspire · To what, where: Bards
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 (highest inspiration, Ireland), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 inspiration | det |
| 2 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 inspiration | amod |
| 3 | inspiration | inspiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seems | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Bards | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bards | det |
| 6 | Bards | Bard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 inspiration | nmod |
| 7 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 passed | mark |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 passed | aux |
| 10 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 seems | xcomp |
| 11 | away | away | ADV | _ | 10 passed | advmod |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 long | advmod |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 passed | advmod |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 16 became | mark |
| 15 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 became | nsubj |
| 16 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passed | advcl |
| 17 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 became | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 seems | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | present | the highest inspiration of the Bards | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | pass away | to-infinitive · perfect | the highest inspiration of the Bards not said here | away, long property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | become | past | Ireland | Christian xcomp | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | inspire | the Bards | nom inspiration «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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