🌲 The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 47

Notwithstanding the destruction of numberless Irish books which certainly existed as late as 1631, and the yet larger number known to have been extant in the eleventh century, besides the vast collections which perished during the Danish invasions, we are informed that the Irish books still preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, and the Royal Irish Academy would alone fill 30,000 quarto pages.

Who acts: numberless Irish books, vast collections, Irish books, Royal Irish Academy · What happens: notwithstand, exist, know, be, perish, inform · To what, where: destruction, larger number, we, Trinity College, 30,000 quarto pages, numberless Irish books · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (numberless Irish books, vast collections, Irish books, Royal Irish Academy), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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