Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 52
On the other hand, Irishmen are as ready as others to feel an interest in a human character, having themselves the ordinary instincts, passions, and curiosities of human nature.
Who acts: Irishmen, others · What happens: be, feel, have · To what, where: other hand, interest, human character, others
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 (Irishmen, 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 hand | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hand | det |
| 3 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 hand | amod |
| 4 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ready | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 hand | punct |
| 6 | Irishmen | irishman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ready | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 ready | cop |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 ready | advmod |
| 9 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 feel | mark |
| 11 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 feel | nsubj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 feel | mark |
| 13 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ready | xcomp |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 interest | det |
| 15 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 feel | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 character | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 character | det |
| 18 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 character | amod |
| 19 | character | character | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 interest | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 having | punct |
| 21 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 feel | advcl |
| 22 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 having | obj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 instincts | det |
| 24 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 instincts | amod |
| 25 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 having | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 passions | punct |
| 27 | passions | passion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 instincts | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 curiosities | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 curiosities | cc |
| 30 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 ready | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 nature | case |
| 32 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 nature | amod |
| 33 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 curiosities | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Irishmen | the other hand | curiosities of human nature conj; ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | others | a interest | a human character | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent interest=Theme in character=Location | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | others not said here | others = other | the ordinary instincts and passions obj | tree rules |
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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