Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 15
We see the stone cist with its great smooth flags, the rocky cairn, and huge barrow and massive walled cathair, but the interest which they invariably excite is only aroused to subside again unsatisfied.
Who acts: We, cist · What happens: see, wall, excite, arouse, subside · To what, where: stone cist, interest
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 (We, cist), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 see | nsubj |
| 2 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 cist | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cist | compound |
| 5 | cist | cist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 flags | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 flags | nmod:poss |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flags | amod |
| 9 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 flags | amod |
| 10 | flags | flag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cist | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cairn | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cairn | det |
| 13 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cairn | amod |
| 14 | cairn | cairn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cist | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 barrow | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 barrow | cc |
| 17 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 barrow | amod |
| 18 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 see | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 cathair | cc |
| 20 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 cathair | amod |
| 21 | walled | wall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 cathair | amod |
| 22 | cathair | cathair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 barrow | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 aroused | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 aroused | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 interest | det |
| 26 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 excite | obj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 excite | nsubj |
| 29 | invariably | invariably | ADV | _ | 30 excite | advmod |
| 30 | excite | excite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 interest | acl:relcl |
| 31 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 aroused | aux:pass |
| 32 | only | only | ADV | _ | 33 aroused | advmod |
| 33 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 see | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 subside | mark |
| 35 | subside | subside | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 aroused | xcomp |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 35 subside | advmod |
| 37 | unsatisfied | unsatisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 subside | xcomp |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | We | the stone cist and the rocky cairn | with religion's great smooth flags; huge barrow and massive walled cathair obl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cist=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | wall | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | excite | present | cist | the interest | invariably property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus which=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | arouse | present · passive | the interest | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | subside | to-infinitive | again | unsatisfied property | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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