The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 48
These volumes exist, almost all of them, in MS. only; while a few, which, without State aid or any public encouragement, have been translated, remain unprinted--a circumstance not honourable either to Ireland’s patriotism, or to that love of learning once her boast.
Who acts: volumes, circumstance, Ireland · What happens: exist, translate, remain, unprint, love, boast · To what, where: learning
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 (volumes, circumstance, Ireland), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 volumes | det |
| 2 | volumes | volume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 exist | nsubj |
| 3 | exist | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 all | punct |
| 5 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 6 all | advmod |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 exist | advcl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 all | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 MS. | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 MS. | case |
| 11 | MS. | MS. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 exist | parataxis |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 11 MS. | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 few | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 16 few | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 few | det |
| 16 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 exist | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aid | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 aid | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 aid | punct |
| 20 | without | without | ADP | _ | 22 aid | case |
| 21 | State | State | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 aid | compound |
| 22 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 few | parataxis |
| 23 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 encouragement | cc |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 encouragement | det |
| 25 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 encouragement | amod |
| 26 | encouragement | encouragement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 aid | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 translated | punct |
| 28 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 translated | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 translated | aux:pass |
| 30 | translated | translate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 exist | advcl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 remain | punct |
| 32 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 translated | conj |
| 33 | unprinted | unprint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 remain | xcomp |
| 34 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 36 circumstance | punct |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 circumstance | det |
| 36 | circumstance | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 translated | obl:agent |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 honourable | advmod |
| 38 | honourable | honourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 circumstance | amod |
| 39 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 38 honourable | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 patriotism | case |
| 41 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 patriotism | nmod:poss |
| 42 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 41 Ireland | case |
| 43 | patriotism | patriotism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 honourable | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 love | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 love | cc |
| 46 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 love | case |
| 47 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 love | det |
| 48 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 patriotism | appos |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 learning | case |
| 50 | learning | learning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 love | nmod |
| 51 | once | once | SCONJ | _ | 53 boast | case |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 boast | nmod:poss |
| 53 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 learning | nmod |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 exist | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist | present | this volumes | MS. parataxis | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | translate | present · perfect · passive | a circumstance | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | remain | infinitive | a circumstance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | unprint | participle | a circumstance not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | love | learning once Ireland's boast | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | boast | Ireland | nom boast «communication intransitive»: poss=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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