Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 36
Of the many poetical and rhetorical titles lavished upon this country, none is truer than that which calls her the Isle of Song.
Who acts: none · What happens: lavish, be, call · To what, where: Ireland · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (none), 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 | Of | of | ADP | _ | 7 titles | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 titles | det |
| 3 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 titles | amod |
| 4 | poetical | poetical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 titles | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rhetorical | cc |
| 6 | rhetorical | rhetorical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 poetical | conj |
| 7 | titles | title | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lavished | obl |
| 8 | lavished | lavish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 country | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 country | det |
| 11 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lavished | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 truer | punct |
| 13 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 truer | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 truer | cop |
| 15 | truer | true | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 lavished | parataxis |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 that | case |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 truer | obl |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 calls | nsubj |
| 19 | calls | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 truer | parataxis |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 calls | obj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Isle | det |
| 22 | Isle | Isle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 calls | xcomp |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Song | case |
| 24 | Song | Song | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Isle | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lavished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lavish | past | of the many poetical titles; upon this country | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | none | than that; true property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | call | present | Ireland | which nsubj; the Isle of Song xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient |
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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