Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 24
No men living, and no men to live, will ever so exhaust the meaning of any single tale as to render its publication unnecessary for the study of others.
Who acts: men, history · What happens: live, exhaust, render, mean, publish, study · To what, where: meaning, publication, single tale, others
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 (men, history), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 men | det |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | nsubj |
| 3 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 exhaust | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 men | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 men | cc |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 men | det |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 living | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 live | mark |
| 9 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 men | acl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 living | punct |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 exhaust | aux |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 14 exhaust | advmod |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 exhaust | advmod |
| 14 | exhaust | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 meaning | det |
| 16 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 exhaust | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tale | case |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 tale | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 tale | amod |
| 20 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 meaning | nmod |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 render | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 render | mark |
| 23 | render | render | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 exhaust | advcl |
| 24 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 publication | nmod:poss |
| 25 | publication | publication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 render | obj |
| 26 | unnecessary | unnecessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 render | xcomp |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 study | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 study | det |
| 29 | study | study | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 unnecessary | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 others | case |
| 31 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 study | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 exhaust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | no men | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | live | to-infinitive | no men not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | exhaust | future | the meaning of any single tale | ever | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus meaning=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | render | to-infinitive | history's publication | unnecessary property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent publication=Theme | ||||
| 5 | mean | any single tale | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | publish | history | nom publication «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | study | others | nom study «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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