Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 42
Such a work it is evident could not be effected by a single individual.
Who acts: work, single individual · What happens: be, not affect · To what, where: work
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 (work, single individual), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 work | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 work | det |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 effected | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evident | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 evident | cop |
| 6 | evident | evident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 work | acl:relcl |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 effected | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 effected | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 effected | aux:pass |
| 10 | effected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 individual | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 individual | det |
| 13 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 individual | amod |
| 14 | individual | individual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 effected | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 effected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | work | such work not said here | evident property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not affect | could · passive | a single individual | such work | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
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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