Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 18
The tales of the Leabhar na Huidhre are in prose, but prose whose source and original is poetry.
Who acts: tales, source, Leabhar Huidhre · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: prose, poetry · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (tales, source, Leabhar Huidhre), 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 tales | det |
| 2 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 prose | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Huidhre | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Huidhre | det |
| 5 | Leabhar | Leabhar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Huidhre | compound |
| 6 | na | na | ADV | Typo=Yes | 5 Leabhar | flat:foreign |
| 7 | Huidhre | Huidhre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 tales | nmod |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 prose | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 prose | case |
| 10 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 prose | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 prose | cc |
| 13 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 prose | appos |
| 14 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 15 source | nmod:poss |
| 15 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 poetry | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 original | cc |
| 17 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 source | conj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 poetry | cop |
| 19 | poetry | poetry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prose | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 prose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the tales of the Leabhar Huidhre | prose | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | poetry's source and original | poetry | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | tell | the Leabhar Huidhre | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=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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