Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 108
Traces, indeed, we find of their influence over the operations of nature, but they are, upon the whole, slight and unimportant.
Who acts: Traces · What happens: find, be, operate · To what, where: nature
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traces), 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 | Traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 find | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Traces | punct |
| 3 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 1 Traces | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Traces | punct |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 find | nsubj |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 influence | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 influence | nmod:poss |
| 9 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obl |
| 10 | over | over | ADP | _ | 12 operations | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 operations | det |
| 12 | operations | operation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 influence | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 nature | case |
| 14 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 operations | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 are | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 are | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 are | nsubj |
| 18 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 whole | punct |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 whole | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 whole | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 are | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slight | punct |
| 24 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 whole | conj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 unimportant | cc |
| 26 | unimportant | unimportant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 whole | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | Traces | of Traces's influence over the operations of nature; we nsubj | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | does | present | Traces = trace | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | operate | nature | nom operation «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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