Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 20
Exact-thinking, scientific France has not hesitated to paint the battles of Louis XIV. with similar hues; and England, though by no means fertile in angelic interpositions, delights to adorn the barren tracts of her more popular histories with apocryphal anecdotes.
Who acts: scientific France · What happens: think, not hesitate, paint, mean, adorn, battle · To what, where: England, battles, barren tracts, Louis XIV · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scientific France), 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 | Exact | exact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 thinking | amod |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Exact | punct |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hesitated | punct |
| 5 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 France | amod |
| 6 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hesitated | nsubj |
| 7 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hesitated | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 hesitated | advmod |
| 9 | hesitated | hesitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 thinking | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 paint | mark |
| 11 | paint | paint | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 hesitated | xcomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battles | det |
| 13 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 paint | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 XIV | case |
| 15 | Louis | Louis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 XIV | compound |
| 16 | XIV | XIV | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 battles | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 paint | punct |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 hues | case |
| 19 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 hues | amod |
| 20 | hues | hue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 paint | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 England | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 England | cc |
| 23 | England | England | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 hesitated | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 means | punct |
| 25 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 means | mark |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 no | case |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 means | obl |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 hesitated | parataxis |
| 29 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 means | xcomp |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 interpositions | case |
| 31 | angelic | angelic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 interpositions | amod |
| 32 | interpositions | interposition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fertile | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 delights | punct |
| 34 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 interpositions | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 adorn | mark |
| 36 | adorn | adorn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 delights | acl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 tracts | det |
| 38 | barren | barren | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tracts | amod |
| 39 | tracts | tract | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 adorn | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 tracts | nmod |
| 42 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 43 popular | advmod |
| 43 | popular | popular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 histories | amod |
| 44 | histories | history | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 adorn | obj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 anecdotes | case |
| 46 | apocryphal | apocryphal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 anecdotes | amod |
| 47 | anecdotes | anecdote | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 histories | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not hesitate | present · perfect | scientific France | England | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | paint | to-infinitive | scientific France not said here | the battles of Louis XIV | with similar hues | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent battle=Destination with hue=Theme | |||
| 4 | mean | present | by no; fertile property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | adorn | to-infinitive | the barren tracts of France | popular histories obj | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | battle | Louis XIV | nom battle «act 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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