Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 17
But if this be the case, we are enabled to take another step in the history of this most valuable literature.
Who acts: this, we · What happens: be, enable, take · To what, where: case, we, step, history
This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, we), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 enabled | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 case | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 case | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 case | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 case | det |
| 6 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enabled | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 case | punct |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 enabled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 enabled | aux:pass |
| 10 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enabled | xcomp |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 step | det |
| 14 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 history | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 history | det |
| 17 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 take | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 literature | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 literature | det |
| 20 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 21 valuable | advmod |
| 21 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 literature | amod |
| 22 | literature | literature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 history | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | this | the case | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enable | present · passive | we | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | we not said here | another step | the history of this valuable literature | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent step=Value in history=Location |
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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