The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 39
Through all its changes the traditional legend claimed a foundation of truth, and pointed ever to some unmeasured antiquity.
Who acts: traditional legend · What happens: change, claim, point · To what, where: foundation, unmeasured antiquity
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 (traditional legend), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 4 changes | case |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 changes | det:predet |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 changes | nmod:poss |
| 4 | changes | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 legend | det |
| 6 | traditional | traditional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 legend | amod |
| 7 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claimed | nsubj |
| 8 | claimed | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 changes | ccomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 foundation | det |
| 10 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claimed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 truth | case |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 foundation | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 pointed | cc |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 claimed | conj |
| 16 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 pointed | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 antiquity | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 antiquity | det |
| 19 | unmeasured | unmeasured | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 antiquity | amod |
| 20 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 changes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | change | present | maker nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | claim speech: other | past | the traditional legend | a foundation of truth | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent foundation=Topic | ||||
| 3 | point | past | the traditional legend not said here | some unmeasured antiquity | ever | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to antiquity=Recipient |
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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