The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 7
Apparently some bard of a later day resolved that these children of an unblessed stock should be a prophetic anticipation of the Gael whose boast was his faith.
Who acts: bard, children, boast, faith · What happens: resolve, unbless, be, boast · To what, where: prophetic anticipation, faith
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 (bard, children, boast, faith), 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 | Apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 8 resolved | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bard | det |
| 3 | bard | bard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resolved | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 day | det |
| 6 | later | late | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 day | amod |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bard | nmod |
| 8 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 anticipation | mark |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 children | det |
| 11 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 anticipation | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 stock | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stock | det |
| 14 | unblessed | unbless | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 stock | amod |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 children | nmod |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 anticipation | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 anticipation | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 anticipation | det |
| 19 | prophetic | prophetic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 anticipation | amod |
| 20 | anticipation | anticipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resolved | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Gael | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Gael | det |
| 23 | Gael | Gael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 anticipation | nmod |
| 24 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 25 boast | nmod:poss |
| 25 | boast | boast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 faith | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 faith | cop |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 faith | nmod:poss |
| 28 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 anticipation | acl:relcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resolved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | past | some bard of a later day | apparently property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unbless | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | is a | should | this children of a unblessed stock | a prophetic anticipation | of the Gael | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is a | past | Gael's faith's boast | Gael's faith | Gael nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 5 | boast | Gael's faith | 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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