Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 111
Like every country upon which imperial Rome did not leave the impress of her genius, Ireland, in these ethnic times, attained only a partial unity.
Who acts: imperial Rome, ethnic times · What happens: not leave, attain, impress · To what, where: impress, partial unity, genius
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 (imperial Rome, ethnic times), 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 | Like | like | ADP | _ | 3 country | case |
| 2 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 country | det |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 leave | obl |
| 6 | imperial | imperial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Rome | amod |
| 7 | Rome | Rome | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 leave | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 leave | advmod |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impress | det |
| 12 | impress | impress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 leave | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 genius | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 genius | nmod:poss |
| 15 | genius | genius | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 impress | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Ireland | punct |
| 17 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 impress | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 times | punct |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 times | det |
| 21 | ethnic | ethnic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 leave | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 attained | punct |
| 24 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 times | acl |
| 25 | only | only | ADV | _ | 28 unity | advmod |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 unity | det |
| 27 | partial | partial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 unity | amod |
| 28 | unity | unity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 attained | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not leave | past · do-support | imperial Rome | the impress of Rome's genius Ireland | time | like every country; which obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent impress=Theme upon which=Location | ||
| 2 | attain | participle | this ethnic times not said here | a partial unity | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | impress | Rome's genius | nom impress «act 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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