Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 120
Can we imagine that a petty king of those times could, after his death, when probably his successor had enough to do to sustain his new authority, command such labour merely to provide for himself a tomb.
Who acts: we, successor, Antrim · What happens: imagine, do, sustain, command, provide, die · To what, where: new authority, such labour, tomb · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (we, successor, Antrim), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | aux |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 imagine | nsubj |
| 3 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 could | mark |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 6 | petty | petty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 could | nsubj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 times | case |
| 9 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 times | det |
| 10 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 king | nmod |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 imagine | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 death | punct |
| 13 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 imagine | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 do | punct |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 do | advmod |
| 18 | probably | probably | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 successor | nmod:poss |
| 20 | successor | successor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 do | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 24 do | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 death | acl:relcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 sustain | mark |
| 26 | sustain | sustain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 do | xcomp |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 authority | nmod:poss |
| 28 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 authority | amod |
| 29 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sustain | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 command | punct |
| 31 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 sustain | conj |
| 32 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 labour | amod |
| 33 | labour | labour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 command | obj |
| 34 | merely | merely | ADV | _ | 36 provide | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 provide | mark |
| 36 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 command | advcl |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 himself | case |
| 38 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 36 provide | obl |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tomb | det |
| 40 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 provide | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 imagine | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | imagine | can | we | Antrim's death parataxis | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 2 | do | past | Antrim's successor | enough, probably property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sustain | to-infinitive | Antrim's successor not said here | successor's new authority | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent authority=Theme | ||||
| 4 | command | infinitive | Antrim's successor not said here | such labour | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent labour=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | provide | to-infinitive | Antrim's successor not said here | a tomb | for successor; merely property | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition tomb=Theme for himself=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | die | Antrim | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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