Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 46
I desire to make this heroic period once again a portion of the imagination of the country, and its chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people as they once were.
Who acts: I, others · What happens: desire, make, be, imagine, mind · To what, where: chief characters, heroic period, country, people
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 (I, others), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 desire | nsubj |
| 2 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 make | mark |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 desire | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 period | det |
| 6 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 period | amod |
| 7 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 make | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 11 portion | advmod |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 portion | det |
| 11 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 imagination | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 imagination | det |
| 14 | imagination | imagination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 portion | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 country | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 country | det |
| 17 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 imagination | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 characters | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 characters | cc |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 characters | nmod:poss |
| 21 | chief | chief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 characters | compound |
| 22 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 desire | obl |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 familiar | case |
| 24 | familiar | familiar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 characters | nmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 minds | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 minds | det |
| 27 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 characters | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 people | case |
| 29 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 people | nmod:poss |
| 30 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 minds | nmod |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 were | mark |
| 32 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 were | nsubj |
| 33 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 34 were | advmod |
| 34 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 desire | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | desire | present | I | imagination's chief characters as familiar in the minds of our people | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | this heroic period | a portion of the imagination of the country obl; once property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset period=Product | |||
| 3 | be | past | others = other | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | imagine | the country | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | mind | our people | nom mind «cognition 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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