The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age, Opening, part 9, sentence 13
Not wholly evil are things ill!
What happens: be · To what, where: things
This is a sentence of «The foray of Queen Meave, and other legends of Ireland's heroic age» by Aubrey De Vere, Opening, part 9. 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 evil | advmod |
| 2 | wholly | wholly | ADV | _ | 3 evil | advmod |
| 3 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 things | nmod:poss |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 things | cop |
| 5 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ill | nsubj |
| 6 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 ill | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | evil's things | evil nmod:poss | 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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