Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 59
The students of Irish literature do not require to be told this; for those who are not, I would give a single instance as an illustration.
Who acts: students, I · What happens: not require, tell, give · To what, where: this, single instance · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (students, I), 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 | 2 students | det |
| 2 | students | student | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 require | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 literature | case |
| 4 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 literature | amod |
| 5 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 students | nmod |
| 6 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 require | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 require | advmod |
| 8 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 told | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | aux:pass |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 require | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 told | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 those | case |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 22 give | obl |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 not | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 not | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 those | amod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 those | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 require | conj |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 instance | det |
| 24 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 instance | amod |
| 25 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 illustration | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 illustration | det |
| 28 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 require | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not require | present · do-support | the students of Irish literature | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | the students of Irish literature not said here | this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: this=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | would | I | a single instance | for those; as a illustration | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent instance=Theme for that=Asset |
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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