Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 169
Either the absence of architectural knowledge, or the force of conservatism, or the advent of the Christian missionaries, checked any further development on these lines.
Who acts: absence · What happens: check, absent · To what, where: further development, lines, architectural knowledge
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 (absence), 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 | Either | either | CCONJ | _ | 3 absence | cc:preconj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 absence | det |
| 3 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 checked | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 knowledge | case |
| 5 | architectural | architectural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 knowledge | amod |
| 6 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 absence | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 force | punct |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 force | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 force | det |
| 10 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 absence | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 conservatism | case |
| 12 | conservatism | conservatism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 force | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 advent | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 advent | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 advent | det |
| 16 | advent | advent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 force | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 missionaries | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 missionaries | det |
| 19 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 missionaries | amod |
| 20 | missionaries | missionary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 advent | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 absence | punct |
| 22 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 development | det |
| 24 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 development | amod |
| 25 | development | development | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 checked | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 lines | case |
| 27 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 lines | det |
| 28 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 checked | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 checked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | check | past | the absence of architectural knowledge | any further development | this lines | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent development=Theme | |||
| 2 | absent | architectural knowledge | nom absence «state 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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