Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 33
This is a single instance, and used merely as an example, but one out of a multitude almost as striking.
Who acts: This, one · What happens: be, use, strike · To what, where: single instance
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 (This, one), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 instance | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 instance | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 instance | det |
| 4 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 instance | amod |
| 5 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 used | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 used | cc |
| 8 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 instance | acl:relcl |
| 9 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 8 used | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 example | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 example | det |
| 12 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 used | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 striking | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 striking | cc |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 striking | nsubj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 multitude | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 multitude | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 multitude | det |
| 19 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 one | nmod |
| 20 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 22 striking | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 striking | mark |
| 22 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 used | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 instance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | This | a single instance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | participle | a single instance not said here | as a example; merely property | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | strike | gerund | one out a multitude | almost property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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