Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 167
A two-fold motive would have impelled the growing civilisation in this direction.
What happens: impel, grow · To what, where: fold motive
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: 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 motive | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 fold | nummod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 two | punct |
| 4 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 motive | compound |
| 5 | motive | motive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 impelled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 impelled | aux |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 impelled | aux |
| 8 | impelled | impel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 civilisation | det |
| 10 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 civilisation | amod |
| 11 | civilisation | civilisation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 impelled | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 direction | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 direction | det |
| 14 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 civilisation | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 impelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | impel | would · perfect · passive | a fold motive | the growing civilisation obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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