Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 118
Immense pebbles, drawn from the County of Antrim, stand around it, each of which, even to move at all, would require the labour of many men, assisted with mechanical appliances.
Who acts: Immense pebbles · What happens: draw, stand, move, require, assist · To what, where: each, County, all, labour, many men
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 (Immense pebbles), 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 | Immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 pebbles | amod |
| 2 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 stand | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 drawn | punct |
| 4 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 stand | advcl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 County | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 County | det |
| 7 | County | County | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 drawn | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Antrim | case |
| 9 | Antrim | Antrim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 County | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
| 11 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | around | around | ADP | _ | 13 it | case |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 stand | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 each | punct |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 stand | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 which | case |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 each | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 move | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 move | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 move | mark |
| 21 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 stand | parataxis |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 all | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 move | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 require | punct |
| 25 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 require | aux |
| 26 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 21 move | conj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 labour | det |
| 28 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 require | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 men | case |
| 30 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 men | amod |
| 31 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 labour | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 assisted | punct |
| 33 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 men | acl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 appliances | case |
| 35 | mechanical | mechanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 appliances | amod |
| 36 | appliances | appliance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 assisted | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | participle | Immense pebbles not said here | from the County of Antrim | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from county=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | stand | infinitive | Immense pebbles | each | County | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent around it=Location | |||
| 3 | move | to-infinitive | all | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at all=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | require | would | the labour of many men | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme labour=Precondition | |||||
| 5 | assist | participle | many men not said here | with mechanical appliances | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with appliance=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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