🌲 Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 64

The Irish country gentleman prides himself on his love of trees, and entertains a very wholesome contempt for the mercantile boor who, on purchasing an old place, chops down the best timber for the market.

Who acts: Irish country gentleman, mercantile boor, landlord · What happens: pride, entertain, purchase, chop down, love · To what, where: landlord, love, wholesome contempt, old place, best timber, trees

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 (Irish country gentleman, mercantile boor, landlord), 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

Pragmatics

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.

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