Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 46
It is evident that these cannot be classed with stories that float vaguely in an ideal world, which may happen in one place as well as another, and in which the names might be disarrayed without changing the character and consistency of the tale, and its relations, in time or otherwise, with other tales.
Who acts: life, stories, ideal world · What happens: be, not class, float, happen, disarray, change · To what, where: these, ideal world, names, character
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 (life, stories, ideal world), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 evident | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 evident | cop |
| 3 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 classed | mark |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 classed | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 classed | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 classed | advmod |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 classed | aux:pass |
| 9 | classed | class | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 evident | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 stories | case |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 classed | obl |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 float | nsubj |
| 13 | float | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 stories | acl:relcl |
| 14 | vaguely | vaguely | ADV | _ | 13 float | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 world | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 world | det |
| 17 | ideal | ideal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 world | amod |
| 18 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 float | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 happen | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 happen | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 happen | aux |
| 22 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 world | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 place | nummod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 float | obl |
| 26 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 29 another | cc |
| 27 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 as | fixed |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 as | fixed |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 float | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 disarrayed | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 disarrayed | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 disarrayed | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 names | det |
| 35 | names | name | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 disarrayed | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 disarrayed | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 disarrayed | aux:pass |
| 38 | disarrayed | disarray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 evident | conj |
| 39 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 40 changing | mark |
| 40 | changing | change | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 38 disarrayed | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 character | det |
| 42 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 changing | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 consistency | cc |
| 44 | consistency | consistency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 character | conj |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 tale | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 tale | det |
| 47 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 consistency | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 relations | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 relations | cc |
| 50 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 relations | nmod:poss |
| 51 | relations | relation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 evident | parataxis |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 54 time | punct |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 time | case |
| 54 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 relations | conj |
| 55 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 56 otherwise | cc |
| 56 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 51 relations | conj |
| 57 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 tales | punct |
| 58 | with | with | ADP | _ | 60 tales | case |
| 59 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 60 tales | amod |
| 60 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 relations | conj |
| 61 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 evident | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | life | life's relations and time and other tales parataxis; evident property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not class | can · passive | these | with stories | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | float | present | stories | a ideal world | in one place; vaguely property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in world=Source in place=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | happen | may | a ideal world | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | disarray | might · passive | the names | which obl | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | change | gerund | the character and consistency of the tale | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=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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