The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 53
How entirely early Irish legends are susceptible of a high poetic rendering in our own day can be doubted by no one who has read the poems founded on them which we owe to the genius of Sir Samuel Ferguson.
Who acts: Irish legends, one, we · What happens: be, render, doubt, read, found, owe · To what, where: poems, one, genius
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 (Irish legends, one, we), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 entirely | advmod |
| 2 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 7 susceptible | advmod |
| 3 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 legends | advmod |
| 4 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 legends | amod |
| 5 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 susceptible | nsubj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 susceptible | cop |
| 7 | susceptible | susceptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 11 poetic | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 poetic | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 poetic | amod |
| 11 | poetic | poetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 susceptible | csubj |
| 12 | rendering | render | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 doubted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 day | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rendering | obl |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 doubted | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 doubted | aux:pass |
| 19 | doubted | doubt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 poetic | advcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 one | case |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 one | det |
| 22 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 doubted | obl |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 read | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 read | aux |
| 25 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 poems | det |
| 27 | poems | poem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 read | obj |
| 28 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 poems | acl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 them | case |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 founded | obl |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 owe | obj |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 owe | nsubj |
| 33 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 one | acl:relcl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 genius | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 genius | det |
| 36 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 owe | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Samuel | case |
| 38 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Samuel | nmod:desc |
| 39 | Samuel | Samuel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 genius | nmod |
| 40 | Ferguson | Ferguson | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 Samuel | flat |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 susceptible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Irish legends | entirely, susceptible property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | render | gerund | day | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | doubt | can · passive | no one | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | read | present · perfect | no one | the poems | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poem=Topic | ||||
| 5 | found | participle | the poems not said here | on poems = poem | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on they=Source | ||||
| 6 | owe | present | we | no one | to the genius of Samuel Sir goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent which=Theme to genius=Goal |
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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