Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Firbolgs and Third Cycle of the Fomoroh., sentence 84
The account which a nation renders of itself must, and always does, stand at the head of every history.
Who acts: nation renders · What happens: stand · To what, where: account, head
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 (nation renders), 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 account | det |
| 2 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stand | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 renders | det |
| 5 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 renders | compound |
| 6 | renders | render | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stand | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 itself | case |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 6 renders | nmod |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 stand | aux |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 does | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 does | cc |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 does | advmod |
| 13 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 stand | aux |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stand | punct |
| 15 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 account | acl:relcl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 head | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 head | det |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stand | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 history | case |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 history | det |
| 21 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 head | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 account | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | must · do-support | a nation renders of account | the account | the head of every history | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme at head=Destination |
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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