Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 51
It would never make its way through that frozen zone which, on this subject, surrounds the Irish mind.
Who acts: work · What happens: not make, freeze, surround · To what, where: way, frozen zone, Irish mind
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 | 4 make | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | aux |
| 3 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 make | advmod |
| 4 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 way | nmod:poss |
| 6 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obj |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 10 zone | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 zone | det |
| 9 | frozen | freeze | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 zone | amod |
| 10 | zone | zone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | obl |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 zone | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 subject | punct |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 subject | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 subject | det |
| 15 | subject | subject | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 make | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 surrounds | punct |
| 17 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 make | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mind | det |
| 19 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mind | amod |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 surrounds | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not make | would | work | work's way | that frozen zone | this subject conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material way=Product | ||
| 2 | freeze | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | surround | present | work not said here | the Irish mind | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mind=Co-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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