Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 109
From nature they extract her secrets by their necromantic and magical labours, but nature is as yet too great to be governed and impelled by them.
Who acts: Traces, nature · What happens: extract, be, govern, impel · To what, where: secrets, 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, nature), 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 | From | from | ADP | _ | 2 nature | case |
| 2 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 extract | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 extract | nsubj |
| 4 | extract | extract | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 secrets | nmod:poss |
| 6 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 extract | obj |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 labours | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 labours | nmod:poss |
| 9 | necromantic | necromantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 labours | amod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 magical | cc |
| 11 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 necromantic | conj |
| 12 | labours | labour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 extract | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 great | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 great | cc |
| 15 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 great | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 great | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 yet | advmod |
| 18 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 great | advmod |
| 20 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 extract | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 governed | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 governed | aux:pass |
| 23 | governed | govern | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 great | advcl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 impelled | cc |
| 25 | impelled | impel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 governed | conj |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 them | case |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 impelled | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 extract | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | extract | present | Traces = trace | Macha's secrets | nature | by Traces's necromantic labours | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent secret=Theme from nature=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | is | present | nature | yet | great property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | govern | to-infinitive · passive | nature not said here | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme» | |||||
| 4 | impel | participle | nature not said here | by Traces = trace | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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