Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 19
The author, from time to time, as if quoting an authority, breaks out with verse; and I think there is no Irish tale in existence without these rudimentary traces of a prior metrical cycle.
Who acts: time, author, I, Irish tale · What happens: quote, break out, think, be · To what, where: authority · 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 (time, author, I, Irish tale), 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 author | det |
| 2 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 breaks | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 time | punct |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 author | conj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 quoting | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 quoting | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 quoting | mark |
| 11 | quoting | quote | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 time | acl:relcl |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 authority | det |
| 13 | authority | authority | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 quoting | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 author | punct |
| 15 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 breaks | compound:prt |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 verse | case |
| 18 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 breaks | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 think | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 think | cc |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 breaks | parataxis |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 is | expl |
| 24 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | ccomp |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 27 tale | det |
| 26 | Irish | Irish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 tale | amod |
| 27 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 is | nsubj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 existence | case |
| 29 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tale | nmod |
| 30 | without | without | ADP | _ | 33 traces | case |
| 31 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 traces | det |
| 32 | rudimentary | rudimentary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 traces | amod |
| 33 | traces | trace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 tale | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 cycle | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 cycle | det |
| 36 | prior | prior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cycle | amod |
| 37 | metrical | metrical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cycle | amod |
| 38 | cycle | cycle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 traces | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 breaks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quote speech: other a condition, not said to happen | gerund | time not said here | a authority | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent authority=Topic | ||||
| 2 | break out | present | the author and time to time | with verse | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with verse=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | present | I | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | be | present | no Irish tale in existence without this rudimentary traces of a prior metrical cycle | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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