Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 59
The English farmer may tear down the barrow which is unfortunate enough to be situated within his bounds.
Who acts: English farmer, barrow · What happens: tear down, be, situate · To what, where: barrow
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 (English farmer, barrow), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 2 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 farmer | amod |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tear | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tear | aux |
| 5 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 tear | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 barrow | det |
| 8 | barrow | barrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tear | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 unfortunate | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unfortunate | cop |
| 11 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 barrow | acl:relcl |
| 12 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 11 unfortunate | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 situated | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 situated | aux:pass |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 unfortunate | advcl |
| 16 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 bounds | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 bounds | nmod:poss |
| 18 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 situated | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear down | may | the English farmer | the barrow | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location barrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the barrow | enough, unfortunate property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | situate | to-infinitive · passive | the barrow not said here | within farmer's bounds | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination» |
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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