The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 41
The present work concludes a series of poems intended to illustrate Irish history at its chief periods.
Who acts: present work · What happens: conclude, intend, illustrate · To what, where: series, poems, Irish history, chief periods
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 (present work), 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 work | det |
| 2 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 work | amod |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concludes | nsubj |
| 4 | concludes | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 series | det |
| 6 | series | series | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 concludes | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 poems | case |
| 8 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 series | nmod |
| 9 | intended | intend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 poems | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 illustrate | mark |
| 11 | illustrate | illustrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 intended | xcomp |
| 12 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 history | amod |
| 13 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 illustrate | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 periods | case |
| 15 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 periods | nmod:poss |
| 16 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 periods | amod |
| 17 | periods | period | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 illustrate | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 concludes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conclude | present | the present work | a series of poems | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent series=Theme | ||||
| 2 | intend | participle | poems not said here | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | illustrate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Irish history | work's chief periods | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Destination |
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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