The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 7, sentence 29
Yet nothing is that was not then foretold-- Hast thou not happy been?
What happens: not be, have · To what, where: nothing, thou
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 7. 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 8 foretold | cc |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 foretold | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 foretold | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 foretold | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 foretold | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 foretold | advmod |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 foretold | advmod |
| 8 | foretold | foretell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 10 Hast | punct |
| 10 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 foretold | conj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 Hast | obj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 happy | advmod |
| 13 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Hast | ccomp |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 happy | cop |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 foretold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present · passive | nothing | then | that nsubj; foretell property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have | present | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||||
| 3 | not is | participle | happy property | tree rules |
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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