Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 35
Every public library in the world will find it necessary to procure a copy.
Who acts: public library · What happens: find, procure · To what, where: world, copy · 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 (public library), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 library | det |
| 2 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 library | amod |
| 3 | library | library | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 find | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 library | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 find | aux |
| 8 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 find | obj |
| 10 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 find | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 procure | mark |
| 12 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 necessary | csubj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 copy | det |
| 14 | copy | copy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 procure | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | future | every public library in the world | world | necessary property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | procure | to-infinitive | a copy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent copy=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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