Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 43
It must be a public and national undertaking, carried out under the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy, at the expense of the country.
Who acts: work · What happens: be, carry out, supervise · To what, where: public, supervision, Royal Irish Academy
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), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 public | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 public | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 public | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 public | det |
| 5 | public | public | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 undertaking | cc |
| 7 | national | national | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 undertaking | amod |
| 8 | undertaking | undertaking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 public | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carried | punct |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 public | acl |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 carried | compound:prt |
| 12 | under | under | ADP | _ | 14 supervision | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 supervision | det |
| 14 | supervision | supervision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Academy | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Academy | det |
| 17 | Royal | Royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Academy | amod |
| 18 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 Academy | amod |
| 19 | Academy | Academy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 supervision | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 expense | punct |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 expense | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 expense | det |
| 23 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Academy | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 country | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 country | det |
| 26 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 expense | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 public | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | must | work | a public and national undertaking | national undertaking conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry out | participle | a public and national undertaking not said here | the supervision of the Royal Irish Academy | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | supervise | the Royal Irish Academy | nom supervision «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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