Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 47
Foreigners are surprised to find the Irish claim for their own country an antiquity and a history prior to that of the neighbouring countries.
Who acts: Foreigners · What happens: be, find · To what, where: Irish claim
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 (Foreigners), 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 | Foreigners | foreigner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 surprised | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 surprised | cop |
| 3 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 surprised | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 claim | det |
| 7 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 claim | amod |
| 8 | claim | claim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 country | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 country | amod |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claim | nmod |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 antiquity | det |
| 14 | antiquity | antiquity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 country | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 history | cc |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 history | det |
| 17 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 claim | conj |
| 18 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 20 that | case |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 prior | fixed |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 claim | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 countries | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 countries | det |
| 23 | neighbouring | neighbouring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 countries | amod |
| 24 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 that | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 surprised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Foreigners | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | Foreigners not said here | the Irish claim and a history | for Foreigners's own country and a antiquity; prior that of the neighbouring countries | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent claim=Theme for country=Beneficiary |
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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