Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 138
To an ardent imaginative people the complete extinction by death of a much-loved hero would even at first be hardly possible.
Who acts: complete extinction, death · What happens: love, be, extinguish · To what, where: ardent imaginative people, loved hero
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 (complete extinction, death), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 5 people | case |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 people | det |
| 3 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 4 | imaginative | imaginative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | amod |
| 5 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 extinction | det |
| 7 | complete | complete | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 extinction | amod |
| 8 | extinction | extinction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 possible | nsubj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 death | case |
| 10 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinction | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hero | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hero | det |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 loved | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 much | punct |
| 15 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 hero | amod |
| 16 | hero | hero | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 extinction | nmod |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 possible | aux |
| 18 | even | even | ADV | _ | 23 possible | advmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 first | case |
| 20 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 possible | obl |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 possible | cop |
| 22 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 23 possible | advmod |
| 23 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 people | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 people | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is | would | the complete extinction by death of a loved hero | a ardent imaginative people not said here | hardly, possible property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | extinguish | death | a loved hero | nom extinction «state transitive»: by=agent 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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