Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 166
This was that germ which, but for the overthrow of the bardic religion, would have developed into a temple in the classic sense of the word.
Who acts: This · What happens: be, develop, overthrow, sense · To what, where: germ, temple, bardic religion, word
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 (This), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 germ | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 germ | cop |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 germ | det |
| 4 | germ | germ | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 developed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 developed | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 developed | cc |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 overthrow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 overthrow | det |
| 10 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 developed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 religion | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 religion | det |
| 13 | bardic | bardic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 religion | amod |
| 14 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overthrow | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 overthrow | punct |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 developed | aux |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 developed | aux |
| 18 | developed | develop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 germ | acl:relcl |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 temple | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 temple | det |
| 21 | temple | temple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 developed | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sense | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sense | det |
| 24 | classic | classic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 sense | amod |
| 25 | sense | sense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 developed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 word | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 word | det |
| 28 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sense | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 germ | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | This | that germ | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | develop | would · perfect | that germ | a temple | for the overthrow of the bardic religion; in the classic sense of the word | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.product PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent which=Material for overthrow=Beneficiary into temple=Product | |||
| 3 | overthrow | the bardic religion | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | sense | the word | nom sense «cognition 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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