Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 6
The Irish historian is immersed in perplexity on account of the mass of material ready to his hand.
What happens: immerse, account · To what, where: Irish historian, perplexity, mass
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: 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 historian | det |
| 2 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 historian | amod |
| 3 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 immersed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 immersed | aux:pass |
| 5 | immersed | immerse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 perplexity | case |
| 7 | perplexity | perplexity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 immersed | obl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 account | case |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 immersed | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 mass | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mass | det |
| 12 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 material | case |
| 14 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 mass | nmod |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 material | amod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ready | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 immersed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | immerse | present · passive | the Irish historian | perplexity | on account of the mass of material | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in perplexity=Destination | |||
| 2 | account | the mass of material | nom account «communication 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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