Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 12
How did their personality affect the minds of their people and posterity?
Who acts: personality · What happens: affect, mind · To what, where: minds, people
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (personality), 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 | 5 affect | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 affect | aux |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 personality | nmod:poss |
| 4 | personality | personality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 affect | nsubj |
| 5 | affect | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 minds | det |
| 7 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 affect | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 people | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 people | nmod:poss |
| 10 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 minds | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 posterity | cc |
| 12 | posterity | posterity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 people | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 affect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | affect | past · do-support | deeds's personality | the minds of deeds's people and posterity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus mind=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | mind | deeds's people and posterity | nom mind «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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: «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (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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