Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 40
Pre-historic narrative is of two kinds--in one the imagination is at work consciously, in the other unconsciously.
Who acts: Pre-historic narrative, one · What happens: be · To what, where: work
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 (Pre-historic narrative, 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 | Pre-historic | pre-historic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 narrative | amod |
| 2 | narrative | narrative | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kinds | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 kinds | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 kinds | case |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 kinds | nummod |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 work | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 one | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 work | nsubj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 imagination | det |
| 11 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 work | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 work | cop |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 work | case |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kinds | appos |
| 15 | consciously | consciously | ADV | _ | 14 work | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 other | punct |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 other | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 other | det |
| 19 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kinds | parataxis |
| 20 | unconsciously | unconsciously | ADV | _ | 19 other | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kinds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Pre-historic narrative | of two kinds | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | one | work | the imagination nsubj; consciously property | 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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