Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 2, sentence 69
The second of these suppositions is one which I think few will adopt.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, think, adopt · To what, where: second one
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 (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 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 one | amod |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 suppositions | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 suppositions | det |
| 5 | suppositions | supposition | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 second | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | cop |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 think | obj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 think | nsubj |
| 10 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 one | acl:relcl |
| 11 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 think | ccomp |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 adopt | aux |
| 13 | adopt | adopt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 few | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | second one | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | I | which obj | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | ||||
| 3 | adopt | future | I not said here | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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