Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 4
No country in Europe is without its cromlechs and dolmens, huge earthen tumuli, great flagged sepulchres, and enclosures of tall pillar-stones.
Who acts: country · What happens: be, flag
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 (country), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 country | det |
| 2 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cromlechs | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 Europe | case |
| 4 | Europe | Europe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 country | nmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cromlechs | cop |
| 6 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 cromlechs | case |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 cromlechs | nmod:poss |
| 8 | cromlechs | cromlech | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 dolmens | cc |
| 10 | dolmens | dolmen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cromlechs | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tumuli | punct |
| 12 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tumuli | amod |
| 13 | earthen | earthen | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tumuli | amod |
| 14 | tumuli | tumuli | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cromlechs | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sepulchres | punct |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sepulchres | amod |
| 17 | flagged | flag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 sepulchres | amod |
| 18 | sepulchres | sepulchre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cromlechs | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enclosures | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 enclosures | cc |
| 21 | enclosures | enclosure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cromlechs | conj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 stones | case |
| 23 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stones | amod |
| 24 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 stones | compound |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 pillar | punct |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 enclosures | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cromlechs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | no country in Europe | without country's cromlechs and dolmens and huge earthen tumuli and great flagged sepulchres and enclosures of tall pillar stones; dolmens conj; huge earthen tumuli conj; great flagged sepulchres conj; enclosures of tall pillar stones conj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flag | participle | 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: «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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