Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 68
Irishmen are often taunted with the fact that their history is yet unwritten, but that the Irish, as a nation, have been careless of their past is refuted by the facts which I have mentioned.
Who acts: fact, facts · What happens: taunt, unwritten, be, refute, mention · To what, where: Irishmen, history, Irish careless, facts
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 (fact, facts), 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 | Irishmen | irishman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 taunted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 taunted | aux:pass |
| 3 | often | often | ADV | _ | 4 taunted | advmod |
| 4 | taunted | taunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 fact | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fact | det |
| 7 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taunted | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 unwritten | mark |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 history | nmod:poss |
| 10 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 unwritten | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 unwritten | aux:pass |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 13 unwritten | advmod |
| 13 | unwritten | unwritten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fact | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 refuted | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 refuted | cc |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 Irish | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Irish | det |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 careless | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nation | punct |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 nation | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 nation | det |
| 22 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Irish | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Irish | punct |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 been | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 26 careless | cop |
| 26 | careless | careles | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 refuted | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 past | case |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 past | nmod:poss |
| 29 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 careless | nmod |
| 30 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 refuted | aux:pass |
| 31 | refuted | refute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taunted | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 facts | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 facts | det |
| 34 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 refuted | obl |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 mentioned | nsubj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 mentioned | aux |
| 38 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 facts | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taunted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | taunt | present · passive | Irishmen | with the fact; often property | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | unwritten | present · passive | the fact not said here | Irishmen's history | yet | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is a | participle | Irish careless | of Irishmen's past | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | refute | present · passive | the facts | Irish careless | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | mention speech: other | present · perfect · passive | the facts | I nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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