The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 2, sentence 8
There was to be again a Ruth out of Moab, one not gleaning amid the fields of promise, but scattering their earliest seed; a Gentile with a faith not found in Israel, yet an Israelite indeed.
What happens: be, not glean, scatter, not find · To what, where: Moab, Ruth, amid, earliest seed, Gentile, Israel
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 was | expl |
| 2 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 Ruth | mark |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 Ruth | cop |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 Ruth | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Ruth | det |
| 7 | Ruth | Ruth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | ccomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 Moab | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Moab | case |
| 10 | Moab | Moab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 was | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 one | punct |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 Moab | appos |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 gleaning | advmod |
| 14 | gleaning | glean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 one | acl:relcl |
| 15 | amid | amid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gleaning | obj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fields | det |
| 17 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 amid | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 promise | case |
| 19 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fields | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 scattering | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 scattering | cc |
| 22 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 gleaning | conj |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 seed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 seed | amod |
| 25 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 scattering | obj |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Gentile | det |
| 28 | Gentile | gentile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 faith | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 faith | det |
| 31 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 found | advmod |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 was | parataxis |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 Israel | case |
| 35 | Israel | Israel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 Israelite | punct |
| 37 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 39 Israelite | cc |
| 38 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 Israelite | det |
| 39 | Israelite | Israelite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obl |
| 40 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 33 found | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Moab; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out moab=Location | |||||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a Ruth | again | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not glean | gerund | amid the fields of promise | vn learn-14-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amid=Topic | |||||
| 4 | scatter | gerund | fields's earliest seed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not find | participle · passive | a Gentile | Israel | with a faith; a Israelite obl; indeed property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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