The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 38
In ancient Ireland history and poetry had but a single Muse, and the bard who professed to be ‘a maker’ would have found no listener.
Who acts: bard · What happens: have, profess, be, find · To what, where: ancient Ireland history, maker, bard
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 (bard), 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 history | case |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 history | amod |
| 3 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 history | compound |
| 4 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 poetry | cc |
| 6 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 history | conj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 Muse | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Muse | det |
| 10 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Muse | amod |
| 11 | Muse | muse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 found | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 found | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bard | det |
| 15 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 professed | nsubj |
| 17 | professed | profess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bard | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 maker | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 maker | cop |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 maker | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 maker | det |
| 22 | maker | maker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 professed | ccomp |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 maker | punct |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 found | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 found | aux |
| 26 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 had | parataxis |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 listener | det |
| 28 | listener | listener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 found | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | ancient Ireland history and poetry | a single Muse conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | profess | past | the bard | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | the bard not said here | a maker | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | would · perfect · passive | the bard | no listener obj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme listener=Attribute |
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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