Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 34
I have not met a single tale, whether in verse or prose, in which it is not clearly seen that the author was not following authorities before him.
Who acts: I, author · What happens: not meet, not see, not follow · To what, where: single tale, verse, prose, authorities
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 (I, author), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 met | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 met | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 met | advmod |
| 4 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tale | det |
| 6 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tale | amod |
| 7 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 verse | punct |
| 9 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 verse | mark |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 verse | case |
| 11 | verse | verse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 met | obl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 prose | cc |
| 13 | prose | prose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 verse | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seen | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seen | obl |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 seen | advmod |
| 20 | clearly | clearly | ADV | _ | 21 seen | advmod |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 met | conj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 following | mark |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 author | det |
| 24 | author | author | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 following | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 following | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 following | advmod |
| 27 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | advcl |
| 28 | authorities | authority | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 following | obj |
| 29 | before | before | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 following | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not meet | present · perfect | I | a single tale | verse or prose | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Co-Agent | |||
| 2 | not see | present · passive | prose | which obl; clearly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not follow | past · progressive | the author | authorities | before Christianity | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent authority=Theme before he=Trajectory |
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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