Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 65
And yet a tree, though cut down, may be replaced.
What happens: cut down, replace · To what, where: tree
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: 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 replaced | cc |
| 2 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 replaced | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replaced | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 6 | though | though | ADV | _ | 7 cut | advmod |
| 7 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 tree | acl |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cut | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 cut | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 replaced | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 replaced | aux:pass |
| 12 | replaced | replace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replaced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cut down | participle | a tree not said here | though property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | replace | may · passive | a tree | yet | vn substitute-13.6.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme |
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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