Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 22
This is sufficient, in a country like Ireland in those primitive times, to necessitate a considerable step into the past, if we desire to get at the originals upon which the prose tales were founded.
Who acts: This, we · What happens: be, necessitate, desire, get, found · To what, where: country, considerable step, past, originals, prose tales
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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 sufficient | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 sufficient | cop |
| 3 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 country | punct |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sufficient | obl |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 Ireland | case |
| 9 | Ireland | Ireland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 country | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 times | case |
| 11 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 13 times | det |
| 12 | primitive | primitive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 country | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 necessitate | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 necessitate | mark |
| 16 | necessitate | necessitate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 sufficient | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 step | det |
| 18 | considerable | considerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 step | amod |
| 19 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 necessitate | obj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 past | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 past | det |
| 22 | past | past | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 necessitate | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 desire | punct |
| 24 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 desire | mark |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 desire | nsubj |
| 26 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 necessitate | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 get | mark |
| 28 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 desire | xcomp |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 originals | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 originals | det |
| 31 | originals | original | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 get | obl |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 founded | obl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 tales | det |
| 35 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 tales | compound |
| 36 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 founded | aux:pass |
| 38 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 originals | acl:relcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sufficient | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | This | a country like Ireland in that primitive times | sufficient property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | necessitate | to-infinitive | a considerable step | the past | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme step=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | desire a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | the originals | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | found | past · passive | the prose tales | upon the originals | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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