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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 continue | advmod |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 continue | nsubj |
| 3 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 inquire | mark |
| 5 | inquire | inquire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 continue | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 receiving | punct |
| 7 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 inquire | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 receiving | obl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 response | det |
| 11 | adequate | adequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 response | amod |
| 12 | response | response | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 receiving | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 chieftains | punct |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 chieftains | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 chieftains | cop |
| 16 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 18 chieftains | det |
| 17 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 chieftains | amod |
| 18 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 response | appos |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 warriors | cc |
| 20 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 chieftains | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 whom | case |
| 22 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 chieftains | nmod |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 people | det |
| 24 | affectionate | affectionate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 people | amod |
| 25 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 raised | nsubj |
| 26 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 whom | acl:relcl |
| 27 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 29 tombs | det |
| 28 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 tombs | amod |
| 29 | tombs | tomb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 raised | obj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 continue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | present | we | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | receive | gerund | we not said here | no adequate response | from tradition | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent response=Theme from he=Source | |||
| 4 | is a | past | no adequate response | that ancient chieftains and warriors | for no adequate response; warriors conj | tree rules | |||
| 5 | raise | past | a affectionate people | that strange tombs | vn 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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