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Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 1, sentence 9

Still we continue to inquire, receiving from him no adequate response, Who were those ancient chieftains and warriors for whom an affectionate people raised those strange tombs?

Who acts: we, adequate response, affectionate people · What happens: continue, inquire, receive, be, raise · To what, where: adequate response, ancient chieftains, strange tombs

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 (we, adequate response, affectionate people), 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

advmodnsubjmarkxcomppunctadvclcaseobldetamodobjpunctnsubjcopdetamodapposccconjcasenmoddetamodnsubjacl:relcldetamodobjpunctrootStillADVwePRONcontinueVERBtoPARTinquireVERB,PUNCTreceivingVERBfromADPhimPRONnoDETadequateADJresponseNOUN,PUNCTWhoPRONwereAUXthoseDETancientADJchieftainsNOUNandCCONJwarriorsNOUNforADPwhomPRONanDETaffectionateADJpeopleNOUNraisedVERBthoseDETstrangeADJtombsNOUN?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1StillstillADV_3 continueadvmod
2wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs3 continuensubj
3continuecontinueVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4totoPART_5 inquiremark
5inquireinquireVERBVerbForm=Inf3 continuexcomp
6,,PUNCT_7 receivingpunct
7receivingreceiveVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 inquireadvcl
8fromfromADP_9 himcase
9himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 receivingobl
10nonoDETPronType=Neg12 responsedet
11adequateadequateADJDegree=Pos12 responseamod
12responseresponseNOUNNumber=Sing7 receivingobj
13,,PUNCT_18 chieftainspunct
14WhowhoPRONPronType=Rel18 chieftainsnsubj
15werebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 chieftainscop
16thosethatDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem18 chieftainsdet
17ancientancientADJDegree=Pos18 chieftainsamod
18chieftainschieftainNOUNNumber=Plur12 responseappos
19andandCCONJ_20 warriorscc
20warriorswarriorNOUNNumber=Plur18 chieftainsconj
21forforADP_22 whomcase
22whomwhomPRONPronType=Rel18 chieftainsnmod
23anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 peopledet
24affectionateaffectionateADJDegree=Pos25 peopleamod
25peoplepeopleNOUNNumber=Plur26 raisednsubj
26raisedraiseVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 whomacl:relcl
27thosethatDETNumber=Plur PronType=Dem29 tombsdet
28strangestrangeADJDegree=Pos29 tombsamod
29tombstombNOUNNumber=Plur26 raisedobj
30??PUNCT_3 continuepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1continuepresentwestillvn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2inquire speech: otherto-infinitivewe not said herevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3receivegerundwe not said hereno adequate responsefrom traditionvn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent response=Theme from he=Source
4is apastno adequate responsethat ancient chieftains and warriorsfor no adequate response; warriors conjtree rules
5raisepasta affectionate peoplethat strange tombsvn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tomb=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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