Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 5
The surrounding nations escape the difficulty by having nothing to record.
Who acts: surrounding nations · What happens: escape, have, record · To what, where: difficulty, nothing
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 (surrounding nations), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nations | det |
| 2 | surrounding | surrounding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 nations | compound |
| 3 | nations | nation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 escape | nsubj |
| 4 | escape | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 difficulty | det |
| 6 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 escape | obj |
| 7 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 8 having | mark |
| 8 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 escape | advcl |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 having | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 record | mark |
| 11 | record | record | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 nothing | acl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 escape | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | present | the surrounding nations | the difficulty | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme difficulty=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | have | gerund | the surrounding nations not said here | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | record | to-infinitive | the surrounding nations not said here | nothing not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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