The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 37
The further back we go the higher is the imagination, the energy, and even the art; the legends of the Heroic Age surpassing the mediæval in refinement as much as in force, and the mediæval escaping the extravagancies and vulgarities sometimes found in those of later days.
Who acts: we, further back, legends, mediæval · What happens: go, be, surpass, escape, find · To what, where: further back, imagination, mediæval, refinement, extravagancies
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 (we, further back, legends, mediæval), 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 back | det |
| 2 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 back | amod |
| 3 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imagination | nsubj |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 back | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 higher | det |
| 7 | higher | high | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 go | parataxis |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 imagination | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 imagination | det |
| 10 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 energy | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 energy | det |
| 13 | energy | energy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imagination | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 art | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 art | cc |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 art | advmod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 art | det |
| 18 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 imagination | parataxis |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 legends | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 legends | det |
| 21 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 imagination | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Age | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Age | det |
| 24 | Heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Age | amod |
| 25 | Age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legends | nmod |
| 26 | surpassing | surpass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 legends | acl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mediæval | det |
| 28 | mediæval | mediæval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 surpassing | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 refinement | case |
| 30 | refinement | refinement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 surpassing | obl |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 much | advmod |
| 32 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 surpassing | obj |
| 33 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 force | case |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 force | case |
| 35 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 much | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 mediæval | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 mediæval | cc |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mediæval | det |
| 39 | mediæval | mediæval | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 legends | conj |
| 40 | escaping | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 39 mediæval | acl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 extravagancies | det |
| 42 | extravagancies | extravagancy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 escaping | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 vulgarities | cc |
| 44 | vulgarities | vulgarity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 extravagancies | conj |
| 45 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 46 found | advmod |
| 46 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 mediæval | acl |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 those | case |
| 48 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 46 found | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 days | case |
| 50 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 51 days | advmod |
| 51 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 those | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 imagination | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present | we | the further back not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location back=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | the further back | the imagination and the energy and the legends of the Heroic Age and the mediæval | the energy conj; the art parataxis; the legends of the Heroic Age and the mediæval conj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | surpass | gerund | the legends of the Heroic Age and the mediæval not said here | the mediæval | refinement | tree rules | |||
| 4 | escape | gerund | the mediæval not said here | the extravagancies and vulgarities | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme extravagancy=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | find | participle | the mediæval not said here | the mediæval | sometimes property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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