Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 66

One elm tree is as good as another, and the thinned wood, by proper treatment, will be as dense as ever; but the ancient mound, once carted away, can never be replaced any more.

Who acts: One elm tree, thinned wood · What happens: be, thin, cart away, not replace · To what, where: ancient mound

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 (One elm tree, thinned wood), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 tree	nummod
2	elm	elm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 good	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 good	cop
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 another	case
8	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 good	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dense	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 dense	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
12	thinned	thin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wood	amod
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 dense	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 treatment	punct
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 treatment	case
16	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 treatment	amod
17	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wood	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wood	punct
19	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 dense	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 dense	cop
21	as	as	ADV	_	22 dense	advmod
22	dense	dense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 good	conj
23	as	as	ADP	_	24 ever	case
24	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	22 dense	obl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 replaced	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 replaced	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mound	det
28	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 mound	amod
29	mound	mound	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 replaced	nsubj:pass
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carted	punct
31	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	32 carted	advmod
32	carted	cart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 mound	acl
33	away	away	ADV	_	32 carted	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 carted	punct
35	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 replaced	aux
36	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	38 replaced	advmod
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 replaced	aux:pass
38	replaced	replace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 good	conj
39	any	any	ADV	_	40 more	advmod
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	38 replaced	advmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	One elm tree		as another; good property	tree rules
2	thin	participle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	is	future	the thinned wood and proper treatment		dense property	tree rules
4	cart away	participle		the ancient mound not said here	away, once property	vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	not replace	can · passive		the ancient mound		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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The tree

Pragmatics

Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 66