Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 46
The latter is indeed the more correct view; but the reader will, I think, agree with me that the divine generations, taken generally, represent more than the average space of man's life.
Who acts: latter, I, divine generations · What happens: be, think, agree, take, represent · To what, where: correct view, more · 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 (latter, I, divine generations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 latter | det |
| 2 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 view | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 view | cop |
| 4 | indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 8 view | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 view | det |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 correct | advmod |
| 7 | correct | correct | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 view | amod |
| 8 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 will | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 will | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 reader | det |
| 12 | reader | reader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 will | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 view | acl:relcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 think | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 think | nsubj |
| 16 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 will | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 agree | punct |
| 18 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 think | ccomp |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 agree | obl |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 taken | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 generations | det |
| 23 | divine | divine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 generations | compound |
| 24 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 taken | nsubj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 generations | punct |
| 26 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 agree | advcl |
| 27 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 26 taken | advmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 represent | punct |
| 29 | represent | represent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 agree | conj |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 represent | obj |
| 31 | than | than | ADP | _ | 34 space | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 space | det |
| 33 | average | average | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 space | amod |
| 34 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 more | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 life | case |
| 36 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 life | nmod:poss |
| 37 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 36 man | case |
| 38 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 space | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 view | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the latter | the correct view | indeed property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | with me | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | participle | the divine generations | generally property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | represent | present | more than the average space of man's life | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot more=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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